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Sidra Bell
Contemporary
Biography:
Sidra's career has spanned for close to 20 years, and she is currently a Master Lecturer at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, and a recent artist-in-residence at Harvard University. She has also held Adjunct Professor and Lecturer positions at Ball State University in Indiana, Marymount Manhattan College, Georgian Court University in New Jersey, and 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. She
was a University of Minnesota Theater Arts & Dance Cowles
Visiting Artist and an artist in residence at
Cornish College of the Arts (Seattle). Her body of work was
featured in the Harvard University Theater, Dance & Media
course Contemporary Repertory: Dance Authorship in the 21st
Century [A dance technique and choreographic repertory class
that focused on contemporary traditions and the repertory of
threechoreographers, engaging in the current discourse of
contemporary dance.] Bell was the 2019 Honoree at CPR-Center
Performance Research's Gala in New York City. Feature speaking
engagements and presentations have included CalArts, The
Juillard School, Yale University Master’s Tea (Silliman College),
Yale Club of New York, Harvard University, MIT (Hacking Arts New
Media Panel), University of Oklahoma, Kinetech Arts San
Francisco, The Spence School (A.M. Perspectives), Gibney Dance
Center, Ball State University, Cornish College, Yale The Mellon
Forum of Life, University of Texas at Austin, Yale Alumni in Dance,
Marymount Manhattan College, Studio @ 550 Boston with JCC
Newton and University of Colorado at Boulder.
Awards: 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. Additionally, NEFA awarded the company a Production
Residency for Dance. 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). The company was one of 25 recipients ofthe Dance
Advancement Fund from Dance/NYC in 2017. 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. February 3 was named SIDRA
BELL DAY by Mayor Thomas Roach in the City of White Plains,NY.
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.
Sidra's most recent accomplishment:
"In March 2011 the 15th Annual Internationales Solo-Tanz-
Theater Festival in Stuttgart, Germany awarded First Prize for
Choreography to Sidra Bell, of the United States, for the solo
Grief Point. Dancer Moo Kim from Korea was awarded First Prize
for Performance in Grief Point. The solo will tour Germany in
November 2011 and have its South American debut in Brazil in
April."
For more information please visit, Sidra Bell Dance NY Sidra Bell Dance NY.
Check out the article on Sidra in June's Dance Teacher Magazine!.