Bridget is an American woman living in Germany since 2006.
Bridget has lived and taught dance in Finland, Russia, Alaska, Austria, Germany and California.
She came to Germany at 18 to work as a dancer and teacher at the Werkstatt e:V. In Düsseldorf and brought the new discipline of Hip Hop dance with her, teaching the very first kid’s Hip Hop dance class at the Werkstatt. Along with her Creative partner, Marvin A. Smith, she organized the first Hip Hop Dance Fest in 1994, bringing American Hip Hop dancers from New York to Germany to teach and give workshops.
She danced commercially until 1995, when she returned to the US to finish her university studies at University California Berkeley, where she received a Master’s Degree summe cum laude in German Literature.
While at UC Berkeley, she continued to perform in regional theater, teach dance, and belonged to the Bay Area’s first Hip Hop Dance Company, New Style Motherlode in Oakland, California.
In 2006, Bridget returned to Germany with her family and began teaching again at the now relocated and renamed Tanzhaus nrw in Düsseldorf. She was among the first teachers to take part in the Tanz in Schulen program “Take Off”.
Between 2010-2015, Bridget and her creative partner Corey Action Harrison collaborated on student choreography projects at Tanzhaus NRW, producing 8 full length dance evenings in the span of 5 years. The students from those projects have become dancers, choreographers, models, and artists in their own right.
In 2016, Bridget began taking her work in 2 new directions: she started choreographing for actors, and she began teaching dance for people with Parkinson’s. At present she teaches 3 Parkinson’s dance classes a week, 2 online and one in person. She continues to teach Street Jazz at Tanzhaus NRW, and she is the dance teacher for the Schauspielstudio Program at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, training acting students from the Hochschule für Musik und Theater >>Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy<< Leipzig. She has most recently choreographed a production of “Zauberberg” at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, and will be choreographing an upcoming production of “Liebe, Mord, und Adelspflicht” at Theater Krefeld, as well as “Cabaret” in Düsseldorf.
