Above: Photo credit (L to R): Featured artists in the 2017 Bridge Project, Radical Movements: Maryam Rostami by Robbie Sweeney, boychild by Matthew Stone, and Lisa Evans by Sonjai Megette.
ABOUT THE BRIDGE PROJECT
The Bridge Project creates and supports equity-driven live art that builds community and centers artists as agents of change.
The Bridge Project consists of the following programs:
Artist power is central to The Bridge Project. The Bridge Project is co-directed by Cherie Hill, Hope Mohr, and Karla Quintero. Read more about our equity-driven model of distributed leadership here.
The Bridge Project began in 2010 as a project of Hope Mohr Dance, but continues to evolve into a platform independent of, and larger than, its white founder.
Read about or core values and operating principles HERE.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF PLACE
We are based in the San Francisco Bay Area, the occupied, ancestral lands of the Ramaytush Ohlone, known today also as the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe, who are the original peoples of the San Francisco Peninsula. We benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland and we affirm their sovereign rights as first peoples. We pay respects to their elders past and present.
Indigenous communities have lived in and moved through this land over hundreds of generations and Indigenous peoples from many nations make their home in this region today. We recognize and honor their ancestors, descendants, elders, and all other members of their communities and give thanks for them and for the Earth.
We acknowledge the ongoing legacies of violence against indigenous peoples and people of color in this country that provide a context for our work.
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT THE BRIDGE PROJECT
"The Bridge Project is a small ray of hope in a troubled world. Creating spaces for debate, dissent, connection and collaboration, the Bridge Project offers a model for how to build arts community." --Jack Halberstam (Columbia University Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Author of The Queer Art of Failure, Featured Participant in 2017 Bridge Project: Radical Movements)
"[The Bridge Project’s] politics around curation seeks to address imbalances between 'established' and 'emerging' artists ... the programming continues to ask how to build a 'we' in performance that includes audiences in the conversation." --Michelle LaVigne and Megan Nicely, “Curating Dialogue: The Bridge Project’s Radical Movements,” TDR: The Drama Review 62:4 (TD40) Winter 2018
“[The Bridge Project] annually recruits the prime movers of American postmodernism”
– S.F. Chronicle
“HMD’s Bridge Project fills a critical gap in the artistic and intellectual life of the Bay Area dance community by honoring the past and giving context to the present through its remarkable annual series of guest artists and events.”
-- Stanford University's Dr. Janice Ross
“The Bridge Project goes beyond Mohr's work as choreographer and artistic director to lead processes often executed by performing arts presenters and venues.”
-- Julie Potter, ODC Theater Director
"Every engagement I’ve had with the Bridge Project, whether as choreographer, performer, or audience member, has presented beautiful and potent unknowingness."
--Maurya Kerr, Choreographer and Performer, Member of the artist cohort in Julie Tolentino's 2017 Community Engagement Residency and in the 2015 Bridge Project, Rewriting Dance
"Hope Mohr Dance and Bridge Project create absolutely vital and much-needed discourse for Dance and Performance in the Bay Area and beyond. To have my artistic work included as an integral part of that discourse has been and will continue to be deeply valuable to me."
-Monique Jenkinson, Featured Artist in 2017 Bridge Project, Radical Movements
"The Bridge Project keeps us connected and aware of a broader history and larger artistic community."
--Karla Quintero, Participant in the 2016 Bridge Project: Ten Artists Respond to Locus
“What the Bridge Project is offering is unparalleled in the Bay Area and deeply important…arts programs are not curated like this anywhere else.”
--Artist and Workshop Participant Margit Galanter