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Beautiful Human Lies: Chapter 4 (Work-in-Progress Showing)

Choreographed by Rennie Harris + Performed by Megan Bridge

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Preview a work-in-progress of a 2025 Fringe show!

Rennie Harris and Megan Bridge first worked on a version of this dance in 1999. 25 years later, this new work is a conversation about race, cultural appropriation, privilege, and the passage of time—choreographed by Harris and performed by Bridge.  
Details
Run Time: 60 mins
Ticket Price: FREE
Venue: FringeArts

Dates: September 12, 2024

September 12, 2024 7.00pm

140 N Christopher Columbus Blvd

General Admission: FREE

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About the Artist

Megan Bridge is an internationally touring dancer, choreographer, educator, and dance scholar based in Philadelphia. She is the co-director of Fidget, an organization for experimental performance in Philadelphia. Bridge has presented her choreography at The Philadelphia Museum of Art, FringeArts, and many other venues in Philadelphia and throughout the United States in Detroit, New York, Pittsburgh, Phoenix, Washington DC, and more, and internationally throughout Germany and Poland as well as in Vienna, Sofia, Bogotá, Tbilisi, Skopje, Rennes, Johannesburg, and Zurich. She has worked on projects by Jerome Bel, Steve Paxton, Lisa Nelson, Lucinda Childs, David Gordon, Headlong Dance Theater, Group Motion, and many more. Bridge holds a BFA in dance from SUNY Purchase, and an MFA in dance from Temple University. She also writes about dance, is a new writer on dance and performance for Artblog (look out for her first article, coming out soon, on the history and lineage of the experimental dance scene in Philly), and has published more than 30 articles for thINKingdance.net, as well as for Dance Magazine, Pointe Magazine, and the Dance Chronicle.


Lorenzo “Rennie” Harris is a dancer, choreographer, artistic director and professor of hip-hop dance, widely credited as being the first person to bring street dance styles to the concert stage. Harris formed the first and longest running hip-hop dance touring company, Rennie Harris Puremovement in 1992. Harris is recognized by the United States Department of Education as a leading ambassador for the art of Hip-hop dance. Harris has received Guggenheim and US Artist International fellowships. After receiving an honorary doctorate from Bates College and an honorary doctorate from Columbia College, Harris' company was chosen as 1 of 4 US companies to serve as cultural ambassadors for President Obama's "Dance Motion USA." Harris will serve as the project's choreographer.

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This event does not require proof of vaccination to attend or masks to be worn


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