Biography
dance-theatre-performance artist
transformation artist
- interdisciplinary dance-theatre-performance-art
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transgender performances, in which the transformation of gender or species is seen live on stage and is an essential part of the dramatic act
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Performances and theater pieces with collages of text and music, classic theatre texts are reflected in modern music
- biographic performances, modern, pop, subjective interpretations of other peoples lives in collage with popular music of several decades
- dancing with the audience / interactive improvisations
with people, furniture, architecture, art, weather ...
- eclectic dance / spontanous dance / dance-clown, grotesque and expressionist dance, post-modern dance, contact-improvisation, disco-club-dance à a very unusual mixture of these dance forms emerges during Bridges dance improvisations which she celebrates everywhere: shopping malls, parks, busstops, trainstations, airports, clubs, dancestudios, living rooms …
Performances of full evening shows at dance-, theatre and performance-festivals. Performances of short pieces and walk-acts at galas, gallery openings, in clubs, at parties, readings, cabarets, various festivals …
Collaborations with artists and scientists of various disciplines : film, tv, photography, fashion, sculpting, painting, drawing, theatre, standup-comedy, poetry, dance, music, video, puppet-theatre, cabaret, fire-performance, childrens theatre…
- 1984-1991 Dance-Theater-Performance Company YoYo-TA performances include: Berlin, Munich, Dresden, Netherlands, New York...
education:
-1981-1984 Gymnastics-teacher-education
- dance-studies with former Mary Wigman-student Gisela Colpe
- 1985-1991 intensive studies of contact-improvisation, new-dance and many other dance forms
-1991-1994 studied Body-Mind-Centering with Bonnie Bainbridge-Cohen in Massachusetts
grants:
- 1989/90/92 grants from the Berlin government for performances of her company YoYo-TA
- 1991, 92 and 94 grants from the Berlin government and the Academy of Arts in Berlin for her studies in the United States
- 2002 funding by Hauptstadtkulturfonds / (Capital of Germany - art funding) for go drag! festival
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2006 funding by the Goethe Institut for performance at Escena Contemporánea Festival Madrid
- since 1991 solo-programmes
full evening shows: (in repertoire at present)
- 1996 bridgeland zwei
one-woman-transgender-performance
German/English, 55 min.
-1998/99 in the box
one-woman-zapping-biographies-performance
German/English, 90 min, one intermission
- 2005 schiller in the box
Schiller for the pop music generation
Solo performance about the famous German poet
with Bridge Markland as Friedrich Schiller. For everyone from the age of 15 upwards.
German, 60 min.
- 2006 faust in the box
Faust for the pop music generation
after Goethes Faust, part one
German, 82 min., one intermission
A collage of the shortened version of the original play with popular music of several decades.
- 2008 faust in the box / english version
Faust for the popmusic generation
English, 90 min., one intermission
- 2008 krug in the box
Heinrich von Kleist: „The broken jug“ for the generations Pop, Rock and popular song
German. 94 min., one intermission
Projects:
- since 2004 collaboration with Jerry Jenkins & his Band of Angels:
2007 + 2008, Springfever Ballroom Event
2007, berlin cabaret project, performances: Teatro Pradillo - Madrid
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since 2008: höre ich tanz! / do I hear dance! dance and music improvisation project with different musicians and dancers
engagements as theatre actress: (excerpts)
-„Angstmän“ (German + English) in „Angstmän“ (Hartmut El Kurdi), since 2003, Platypus Theater for children and young people, Berlin, directed by Anja Scollin
-„Sal Bagaletto“ (English) in „Incognito“ (Kuntzevich), Berlin Play Actors , 1996, directed by Rik Maverik
-„Frank N’ Furter“ (German + English) in „Rocky Horror Show“ (Richard O’ Brien), 1997/98, Brandenburger Theater, directed by Christopher Blenkinsop/Anton Rey