ROB BRIDGER

Robert Bridger is a dance artist and creative practitioner working between the UK and France.

He started dancing at Swindon Dance (Centre for Advanced Training), before going on to study at Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance. Currently, he collaborates and performs with Emanuel Gat Dance.

Robert has performed and toured worldwide with companies including National Dance Company of Wales, Alexander Whitley Dance Company, Protein Dance and Peter Schaufuss Balletten. He has created works with choreographers including Marcos Mourau (La Veronal), Mark Baldwin and Christopher Bruce. Within a gallery context, he has performed in Pablo Bronstein’s, Historical Dances in an Antique Setting at the Tate Britain and Olafur Eliasson’s, Ice Watch at the Tate Modern.

Robert has shared his own choreographic and solo work at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, The Linbury Theatre (Royal Opera House, London) and The Hockney Gallery (London).

Most recently Robert was commissioned to create new interdisciplinary work as part of the Arsenale’s (Berlin) exhibition on Ian White – Cinema as a Live Art / Becoming Object show (2019). He also received a co-commission last year to develop a new stage work as part of an exchange with Taiwanese artists. The duet ‘Twoo’ premiered in 2019 a the National Theatre of Taiwan in Taipei (2019).

His work navigates the entanglement of dance, performance and visual art. In 2019 Robert facilitated two skills sharing residencies for dancers and visual artists at Swindon Dance and Pavilion Dance South West. He also initiated the Desktop Choreography RECLAIM Residency, an online residency working as a platform for artists with an interest in movement and dance to research into their practice, make new work and collaborate in constructing a digital anthology of movement research.