THE BRIDGE

Commissioned by Utah Presents and SALT Dance, The Bridge was inspired the classic short story, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”, by Ambrose Bierce. Featuring an original score and on-stage accompaniment by Stuart Maxfield, contemporary movement and music combine to tell a story of love, longing, and fate.

In Bierce’s original text, a civil war soldier is captured by the enemy and as he awaits his execution on Owl Creek Bridge, he breaks free from the ropes around his neck and plunges in the water below in a daring escape attempt. In his desperation to reach home and his family, our hero begins to hallucinate and the environment around him seems to warp and shift with every step he takes. The Bridge pulls audiences into the raw emotion of survival, longing, and asks, “can we ever truly escape our fate?”