"Radiate" by Maggie Bridger

Presented as part of Synapse Arts - New Works 2021

Saturday June 5 and Sunday June 6 2021

Via livestream on the Chicago Dance History Project channel

Radiate credits:

Maggie Bridger, Director and Choreographer

Bryan Saner, Mentor

Artist note:

“Radiate” poses embodied questions about the nature of pain and illness through the mediums of film and movement. Contrasting dominant understandings of pain that situate it as solely personal and tragic, choreographer Maggie Bridger draws on the tools, movements and practices she uses to calm her pain to offer alternate visions for what pain is and does. “Radiate” invites the viewer into Maggie’s home and studio practice, engaging with themes of intimacy, time and care as it depicts the frustration, humor and mundanity of pain as she experiences it.