Bridgman | Packer Dance: Ghost Factory

What lingers in a space after we leave, and what happens when those traces begin to move?

For more than 40 years, Art Bridgman and Myrna Packer have made work unlike anyone else: just the two of them onstage, merging dance and film into a singular, ever-evolving language. Today, their boundary-blurring dances remain as inventive as ever.

In Ghost Factory, their latest work, live performance and video collide in a world of shifting perspectives and haunted spaces. Inspired by the abandoned factories and residents of Johnson City, New York, the piece conjures a landscape where human stories cling to architecture, and images flicker with the presence of those who came before. Dancers move through and against projected environments that fracture, multiply, and dissolve, creating a mesmerizing interplay of illusion and physicality.

Created with longtime collaborators including filmmaker Peter Bobrow, lighting designer Frank DenDanto III, costume designer Anna-Alisa Belous, and composer/sound designer Ansel Bobrow, Ghost Factory unfolds as a fully immersive experience. Extending into and through 92NY’s building is Places with Hidden Stories, an accompanying audio visual installation that brings hidden histories from Johnson City and a Lower East Side tenement into vivid focus.

Part of 92NY’s Home season, Bridgman | Packer Dance take on 92NY’s newly renovated home, transforming it into a living, shifting environment that holds memory, illusion, and human presence all at once.