LEWISTON — Blending dance, video and something of the sensibility of painter Edward Hopper, Bridgman | Packer Dance will bring “Voyeur,” their newest work, to the 2013 Bates Dance Festival at 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, Aug. 2-3, in Bates College’s Schaeffer Theatre, 305 College St.

Art Bridgman and Myrna Packer are known for integrating video into dance — making it, in effect, their third dance partner. In “Voyeur,” they push into new territory choreographically, thematically and technologically. Inspired by the paintings of Edward Hopper, “Voyeur” presents fragments of private lives playing out on a set whose windows and doorways permit the audience to be, like Hopper, “one who looks.”

Bridgman and Packer have collaborated as performers and choreographers since 1978. Their innovative work is acclaimed for its highly visual and visceral alchemy of the live and the virtual. In 2008 they received the first Guggenheim Fellowship awarded to two individuals for collaborative work.

For more information, visit batesdancefestival.org/EventNotes/BridgmanPacker.html.

Tickets are $25 for the general public, $18 for seniors and $12 for students. Tickets may be purchased online; by phone at 207-786-6161 from 1-5 p.m. Monday-Saturday; or by mail or in person. Learn more: batesdancefestival.org/tickets.php.


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