RETURN TO FORM: The Shape of Time, An Installation by Sidra Bell Dance New York and the SBDNY Design Team
Oct 27, 2022, 6:00 pm EDT
GIBNEY: AGNES VARIS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
280 BROADWAY, THE LAB (STUDIO A)
FREE
Timed Entry Reservation Required. Audience members may arrive within twenty minutes of reserved entry time.
RETURN TO FORM: The Shape of Time, An Installation by Sidra Bell Dance New York and the SBDNY Design Team, features video, objects, performance ephemera, drawings, costumes, dreams, texts, palettes, and designs from the artists of Sidra Bell Dance New York and its collaborators over the past two decades.
Curated by Sidra Bell with Alexsa Durrans (Video Design/Installation), Rory Golden (Exhibition Consultant), Alexandra Wells, Ernest Baker (Filmmaker) and Claudette Bell. Produced by Karen Kitchen.
Join Sidra Bell’s workshop, CONTEMPORARY SYSTEMS―an interior & material approach to movement, at Gibney on Friday, October 21 from 10:00 AM-12:00 PM. Click here for more details and to register for the workshop.
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About Sidra Bell
Sidra was commissioned as the first black female choreographer to make works for New York City Ballet. Recent features of her historical work at NYCB include Essence Magazine, NY1 and Amsterdam News. Her career has spanned over 20 years and her choreography has been seen throughout the United States and in Denmark, France, Austria, Bulgaria, Turkey, Slovenia, Sweden, Germany, China, Canada, Aruba, Korea, Brazil, and Greece. Bell has created over 100 works notably for BODYTRAFFIC, Ailey II, The Juilliard School, Whim W’Him, Boston Conservatory at Berklee College, River North Dance Chicago, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Sacramento Ballet, Boulder Ballet, New Dance Partners Kansas City, Ballet Austin, Springboard Danse Montréal, and Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet Schools, University of Texas at Austin among many others.
Sidra Bell Dance New York (SBDNY, Inc.) her nonprofit dance troupe is celebrating its 20th anniversary. The company tours internationally collaborating with cutting edge institutions in dance, theater, and design. Its body of work has been presented in venues across the globe. Bell is the founder of the award-winning MODULE Laboratory™ an immersive platform centered in improvisation for intergenerational movement and theater artists.
About Sidra Bell Dance New York
Sidra Bell Dance New York has rapidly gained an international profile for work that reveals aspects of the human condition through a distinctly female lens. Bell’s creations have been described as “brainy, exuberant, and audacious” (San Francisco Chronicle). The work demands both physical power and tender expressiveness from her crack ensemble of “fearless and technically honed dancers” (Vancouver’s Georgia Straight). The Company has performed extensively throughout the USA, Europe, Canada, and South America. It was named “#1 in Contemporary Dance in 2014” by the Pittsburgh Examiner, as one of ArtsATL’s “Notable Dance Performances of 2012”, and in the “Top 10 for Best in Dance in 2010” by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. SBDNY was awarded a 2015 National Dance Project Award from New England Foundation for the Arts and was one of 25 inaugural companies to receive a Dance Advancement Fund Award from Dance/NYC in 2017. SBDNY has an extensive educational and mentorship program built on MODULE philosophy and works with institutions for dance and theater internationally with a particular emphasis on young artist development.
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Top Photo Credit: SBDNY Company Artist and Rehearsal Director Kimie Parker in “what is vital” by David Flores Productions, 2021. Bottom Photo Credit: SBDNY Company Artist and Rehearsal Director Kimie Parker in “what is strange” by David Flores Productions, 2021.