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Sidra Bell | Founding Collaborator

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Photo by Genna Baroni © 2013
Sidra Bell (Artistic Director of Sidra Bell Dance New York), is currently a Master Lecturer at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, an Adjunct Professor at Ball State University in Indiana, was artist in residence at Harvard University, and was an Adjunct Professor at Barnard College in New York City. She has a BA in History from Yale University and an MFA in Choreography from Purchase College Conservatory of Dance.Bell has won several awards, notably a 1st Prize for Choreography at the Solo Tanz Theater Festival in Stuttgart, Germany in 2011 for Grief Point, and a 2015 National Dance Project Production Award from the New England Foundation for the Arts. The collaborating soloists on works she created also won performance awards for two different solos at the Stuttgart Solo Tanz Theater Festival (1st and 2nd Prizes respectively). Her work has been seen throughout the United States and in Denmark, France, Austria, Bulgaria, Turkey, Slovenia, Sweden, Germany, China, Canada, Aruba, Korea, Brazil, and Greece. The company was lauded as #1 in Contemporary Dance by the Pittsburgh Examiner in 2014 for "garment", in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette's 2010 Best in Dance for "ReVUE", and in the 2012 Year in Review in ArtsATL's notable performances for "Nudity". 

Bell has received many commissions from institutions and companies internationally and created over 100 new works notably for BODYTRAFFIC, Ailey II, The Juilliard School, Harvard University, Boston Conservatory, River North Dance Chicago, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Sacramento Ballet, Ballet Austin, Alonzo King's LINES Ballet School, LEVYdance, Robert Moses' KIN, METdance, Visceral Dance Chicago, Springboard Danse Montréal, Uppercut Dansteater (Denmark), and Motto Dans Kolectif (Turkey) to name a few. Bell was a cultural ambassador in Sofia, Bulgaria in 2014 and 2015 (made possible by Movement Research, Trust for Mutual Understanding, and Derida Dance Center). In 2015 she collaborated with the internationally acclaimed women's chorus Karmina Slovenica in Slovenia.

In 2012, Bell was commissioned as the choreographer for the feature film "TEST" set in San Francisco during the height of the AIDS crisis in 1985 written/directed by Chris Mason Johnson (Frankfurt Ballet/White Oak Project). "TEST" was awarded two grand jury prizes from Outfest.The  film had many screenings at festivals worldwide, including The Seattle Film Festival, Frameline37 (San Francisco), Outfest (L.A.), Berlinale, and New York City Lincoln Center's NewFest Festival. The movie is enjoying a theatrical release and was a New York Times Critic's Pick. It is currently available on VOD, iTunes and Netflix.

Bell is a sought after master teacher and her alternative pedagogy, Contemporary Systems-an interior & material approach was featured in Dance Magazine, Dance Teacher Magazine and Dance Studio Life Magazine. She has taught her unique creative practice at major institutions for dance and theater throughout Canada, Europe, South America, and the United States. She is the Creative Director of "MODULE" a New York City based immersive laboratory for movement and theater artists.
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SBDNY has an extensive educational and mentorship program and works with institutions for dance and theater internationally with a particular emphasis on young artist development.
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​photo credit courtesy of NJDTE: David Flores

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      • Nicole von Arx
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      • Francois Perron
    • MIP2® | Previous Artists >
      • Navarra Novy-Williams
      • Jason Reese
      • Adam Barruch
      • Roderick George
      • Sidra Bell
      • Andra Corvino
      • Gregory Dolbashian
      • Nathalie Erlbaum-Bornstein
      • Loni Landon
      • Ana-Maria Lucaciu
      • Mitch Marcus
      • Belinda McGuire
      • Andrew Monroe
      • David Norsworthy
  • MIP®
    • MIP® | History
    • MIP® | Previous Artists >
      • Isadora Wolfe
      • Stefanie Batten Bland
      • Navarra Novy-Williams
      • Francesca Harper
      • Jeffrey Docimo
      • Joseph Poulson
      • Roderick George
      • Stephanie Crousillat
      • Slowdanger
      • Sidra Bell
      • Shannon Gillen
      • Shamel Pitts
      • Elia Mrak
      • Troy Ogilvie
      • Alexandra Wells
      • Helen Pickett
      • Alan Barnes
      • Loni Landon
      • Victoria Sendra
      • Kyle Abraham
      • Jerome Begin
      • Frances Chiaverini
      • Andrew Cowan
      • Peter Chu
      • Gabriel Forestieri
      • Ariel Freedman
      • Saar Harari
      • Alexandra Johnson
      • Jill Johnson
      • Ana-Maria Lucaciu
      • Andrea Miller
      • Christopher Roman
      • Cindy Salgado
      • Jermaine Spivey
      • Laura Tishchenko
      • Jackie Villamil
      • Adam Weinert
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