Also this issue: Paperback Riders Local commuters (re)discover the pleasures of reading in transit. -Toby Zinman Industry Standard -David Anthony Fox Tabloid Sensation Bat Boy invades suburban household! With terrifyingly good results! -David Anthony Fox Hanging in the Balance The negative and the positive find a happy medium in Isabel Bigelow’s work. -Susan Hagen Telling the Truth -Lori Hill Twists of Fate -Deni Kasrel Highway to Art -A.D. Amorosi Art of the Deal -Lori Hill

May 29-June 4, 2003

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Weathering the Storm

Megan Bridge has made a name for herself locally as an intriguing, experimental dancer/choreographer with sterling credentials as Fringe participant (more later) and Group Motion member. Much of her work is done collaboratively with composer-videographer Peter Price, including her CEC program this weekend, titled Whither the Storm (also the nicely enigmatic name of the last of seven dances on the program). Bridge has an "as needed" approach to choreography, sometimes staying "completely outside as the choreographic eye." She did this with "Kiss Off," a piece premiering in Whither the Storm which she approached "with a clear-eyed idea of what I wanted to do." In preparing for "Whither the Storm," loosely based on a previous work called "Obelisk," Bridge found her five male dancers really "committed and they played a huge role in re-creating and changing the dance."

Bridge remains just as much a dancer as choreographer, an "indissoluble combination, at least for me." Longtime collaborators Bridge and Price plan to marry this summer as a performance art event at the 2003 Fringe. Tickets will be available. Sounds like a standing-room-only wedding. Would you like to head over to CEC this weekend and get an advance look at their "collaborative, improvisational and experimental" union? Say "I do."

Whither the Storm, Sat.-Sun., May 31-June 1, 8 p.m., $8-$10, Community Education Center, 3500 Lancaster Ave., 215-284-6030.

—Janet Anderson