Bridgett
@bridgettcains.bsky.social
(She/her) Dancer and sideshow contortionist, running courses on choreographic process for misfits of movement. Aroace SMBC. Clumsy dork.
www.PeculiarStage.com
www.PeculiarStage.com
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Bridgett
@bridgettcains.bsky.social
· Jan 24
Back when I was pregnant, squirming around in an incredible raqs sharqi and transnational fusion show with the most stunning and vocal audience, in between bouts of morning sickness backstage.
#SideshowContortion
#SideshowContortion
Sitting in a waiting room while my kid is at an extra-curricular activity, listening to a grandmother "help" an older sibling of one of my little one's friends do homework. 1/
February 19, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Sitting in a waiting room while my kid is at an extra-curricular activity, listening to a grandmother "help" an older sibling of one of my little one's friends do homework. 1/
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This was a hard one to condense into four panels
February 12, 2025 at 1:34 AM
This was a hard one to condense into four panels
I enrolled in a business course and met with my mentor. Apparently during the course they'll recommend I use AI to "help with ideas". When I explained I'm not interested due to ethical & environmental concerns, he assured me that it's not compulsory, but that he strongly recommends I think about it.
February 8, 2025 at 1:31 AM
I enrolled in a business course and met with my mentor. Apparently during the course they'll recommend I use AI to "help with ideas". When I explained I'm not interested due to ethical & environmental concerns, he assured me that it's not compulsory, but that he strongly recommends I think about it.
To all the powers that be in the ballet, and broader dance worlds, can you please hire more choreographers who make work like this? I want to sit in theatres and have all of my breath taken away by this kind of connection!
the world sucks, here’s a queer pas de deux I’m choreographing
February 3, 2025 at 5:51 AM
To all the powers that be in the ballet, and broader dance worlds, can you please hire more choreographers who make work like this? I want to sit in theatres and have all of my breath taken away by this kind of connection!
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Why are unsolicited gig offers always "can you perform for our football team's board member?" or "can you freestyle dance at a beach resort party?" when this bendy goth's promo looks like this?
I belong in dimly-lit cabaret venues with alt/queer lineups and audiences 🦇
📸 Brig Bee
I belong in dimly-lit cabaret venues with alt/queer lineups and audiences 🦇
📸 Brig Bee
January 26, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Why are unsolicited gig offers always "can you perform for our football team's board member?" or "can you freestyle dance at a beach resort party?" when this bendy goth's promo looks like this?
I belong in dimly-lit cabaret venues with alt/queer lineups and audiences 🦇
📸 Brig Bee
I belong in dimly-lit cabaret venues with alt/queer lineups and audiences 🦇
📸 Brig Bee
Back when I was pregnant, squirming around in an incredible raqs sharqi and transnational fusion show with the most stunning and vocal audience, in between bouts of morning sickness backstage.
#SideshowContortion
#SideshowContortion
January 24, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Back when I was pregnant, squirming around in an incredible raqs sharqi and transnational fusion show with the most stunning and vocal audience, in between bouts of morning sickness backstage.
#SideshowContortion
#SideshowContortion
Thankfully there have also been plenty of choreographers who've found it inappropriate to stage stories about men and girls. I don't care how talented a choreographer he was, Balanchine's legacy is still doing damage to women.
“Put a man and a girl on stage and there is already a story
a man and two girls, there's already a plot.”
-George Balanchine #BOTD
a man and two girls, there's already a plot.”
-George Balanchine #BOTD
January 23, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Thankfully there have also been plenty of choreographers who've found it inappropriate to stage stories about men and girls. I don't care how talented a choreographer he was, Balanchine's legacy is still doing damage to women.
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Unsolicited advice: pick one or two issues and whole-ass your support or advocacy and activism. Obviously remain open to show up for other folks’ organizing if it falls outside of your focus, but it’s gonna get tempting to stand for everything, which is a recipe for burnout and disappointment.
January 22, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Unsolicited advice: pick one or two issues and whole-ass your support or advocacy and activism. Obviously remain open to show up for other folks’ organizing if it falls outside of your focus, but it’s gonna get tempting to stand for everything, which is a recipe for burnout and disappointment.
I've been running in-person workshops and courses on choreographic process for a couple of decades now, and mentoring people 1:1 online for many years.
I'm now branching out into self-paced (and eventually cohort-based) online courses, and would love to hear about what people want to know.
I'm now branching out into self-paced (and eventually cohort-based) online courses, and would love to hear about what people want to know.
Choreographic Process Survey
As a choreography nerd who runs workshops and courses, and offers mentoring to performers, I've spent a lot of time learning about creative and choreographic processes through formal certification, wo...
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January 16, 2025 at 12:56 AM
I've been running in-person workshops and courses on choreographic process for a couple of decades now, and mentoring people 1:1 online for many years.
I'm now branching out into self-paced (and eventually cohort-based) online courses, and would love to hear about what people want to know.
I'm now branching out into self-paced (and eventually cohort-based) online courses, and would love to hear about what people want to know.
Towards the end of 2024 I made an effort to read more fiction, and found some of my new favourite books. I'm now on the hunt for recommendations for magical realism or sci-fi that are cosy, optimistic, and preferably not written by cis men.
January 15, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Towards the end of 2024 I made an effort to read more fiction, and found some of my new favourite books. I'm now on the hunt for recommendations for magical realism or sci-fi that are cosy, optimistic, and preferably not written by cis men.