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Evening/Half Evening Works:    

»POOL
In process
Premiere: Dance Theater Workshop (2011)

Sidra Bell Dance New York, led by choreographer Sidra Bell, presents POOL, a surrealist and futuristic work inspired by the recollection of near drowning. POOL examines memory, dreams, and illusions as well as the line between order and disorder. The work features an eclectic and evocative music score and a cast of seven dancers. 

Choreography: Sidra Bell
Running time: 41 minutes
Dancers: 7
Music: Various
Costumes: Alexandra Johnson / Sidra Bell
Lighting: Vincent Vigilante

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Pool

POOL VII from Sidra Bell Dance New York on Vimeo.


»Beautiful Beast
2010
Premiere: The Duo Theatre (NYC)

9 Dancers
55 Minutes (Evening Length)
Excerpts available

Sidra Bell's anthemic full length looks at aspects of beauty both extravagant and violent as well as the masculine gaze. Bell examines the framing of the female form and the brutality of its imaging in contemporary culture. This fantastical work takes viewers through a dreamscape of personas that are simultaneously glamorous, destroyed, endangered, grotesque, and heroic. Bell used words as the driving force from which the performers' fantasies departed. The audience is led into a world of jockeys, ring leaders, cigarette ads, sad clowns, detached omniscient symbols, conjoined twins and many more. The landscape is a house of mirrors, a house of horrors and a house of cards falling down.

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BEAUTIFUL BEAST (2010)
Choreography by Sidra Bell
Commissioned and Presented by The Duo Theatre
Style/Creative Direction: Sidra Bell & Bradley Scott of AVANT Magazine
Lighting: Burke Wilmore
Music: AIR, Alva Noto, Belong, Eluvium, Fennesz, Fever Ray, Shi-Tennoji Chanting Group, Funkstrorung, Kraftwerk, The Knife, Lustmord, Marsen Jules, Signal

Dancers: Jenelle Figgins, Samantha Figgins, Leslie Hubilla, Alexandra Johnson, Moo Kim, Caroline Kirkpatrick, Anila Mazhari, Rebecca Margolick, Amber Morgan, Troy Ogilvie, Amber Lee Parker, Maud de la Purification, Gilbert Small

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BeautifulBeast

BEAUTIFUL BEAST from Sidra Bell Dance New York on Vimeo.

 


»REVUE
2010
Premiere: The Kelly Strayhorn Theater (Pittsburgh, PA)

6 Dancers
60 minutes (Evening Length)
Excerpts available

The thirteen sketches of REVUE range in mood from ribald and humorous to melancholic and haunting. The seed of the idea for REVUE began at the Kelly-Strayhorn Theatre in January 2010, largely inspired by the theatre's walls and old grandeur. The work draws its imagery from the idea that all the world is a stage. The dancers acknowledge the gaze of the audience while creating their own world of mystery.

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Choreography by Sidra Bell (2010)
Commissioned and Presented by
The Kelly Strayhorn Theater
Lighting: Kristin Helmrich
Music: AIR, Belong, Eluvium, Ezekiel Honig, Kiln, Laurie Anderson, Loscil, Mokira, Moonstar, Dakota Suite,The Knife

Dancers: Jonathan Campbell, Leslie Hubilla, Alexandra Johnson, Moo Kim, Caroline Kirkpatrick, Maud de la Purification

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REVUE from Sidra Bell Dance New York on Vimeo.


»House Unrest
2009
9 Dancers
Premiere: The Gershwin Hotel (NYC) 

30 minutes
(Adaptable and suitable for stage)

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HOUSE UNREST (2009)
Choreography by Sidra Bell
Premiere: The Gershwin Hotel, New York City

Dancers: Alexandra Johnson, Amber Lee Parker, Anthony Lomuljo, Bennyroyce Royon, Casia Vengoechea, Chalvar G.Y. Monteiro, Gilbert Small, Jacqueline Dumas, Jehbreal Muhammad, Leslie Hubilla, Lucie Baker, Mary Glackmeyer, McKay Montz, Moo Kim, Rachelle Scott, Troy Ogilvie

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HOUSEUNREST

HOUSE UNREST from Sidra Bell Dance New York on Vimeo


»Anthology
2009
4 Dancers
Premiere: Thelma Hill Performing Arts Center (Brooklyn, NY)

30 minutes
Excerpts available

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Anthology (2009)
Choreography by Sidra Bell
Dancers: Alexandra Johnson, Troy Ogilvie, Amber Lee Parker, Gilbert Small
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Anthology1

Anthology from Sidra Bell Dance New York on Vimeo.


»Conductivity 
2008
Premiere: Baryshnikov Arts Center (New York, NY) 

Solo/Duet (Dancer/Actor)
12 or 20 minutes

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Conductivity (2009)
Choreography: Sidra Bell
Dancer: Shamel Pitts
Text/Performance: Robbie Sublett
Photography: Phillip Romano
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Conductivity1

Conductivity from Sidra Bell Dance New York on Vimeo.


»Chimeras
2008
Premiere: Stella Adler Studio of Acting (New York, NY)

 6 Dancers 
40 minutes

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Chimeras (2009)
Choreography by Sidra Bell
Dancers: Nuttapong Charayvarath, Jordana Deveau, Alexandra Johnson, Troy Ogilvie, Amber Lee Parker, Ricardo Zayas
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Chimeras

Chimeras from Sidra Bell Dance New York on Vimeo.


Short Works:    

Solos:

»Midnight Variation & you
2010
Solo
Premiere: Peter Jay Sharp Theater (The Juilliard School)

Solo/duet en pointe
6 Minutes

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»Overtures
2009
Solo
Premiere: The Kelly Strayhorn Theater (Pittsburgh, PA)

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»The Malady of Elegance
2009
Premiere: Peter Jay Sharp Theater (The Juilliard School)

Solo
8 Minutes

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»Variations in III
2008
Premiere: Dance Theater of Harlem
Open House Series (New York, NY) 

Three Solos 
12 Minutes

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»Walk Softly
2004
Premiere: Purchase College (Purchase, NY) 

Solo 
5 Minutes

   

Duets:

   

»Leaves Eclipse the Light
2010
Premiere: The Duo Theatre

6 minutes
(extract from Beautiful Beast and REVUE)

   

»your hands
2009
Premiere: The Harlem Stage (NYC)

Duet
7 minutes

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»Entropy 
2009
Premiere: Thelma Hill Performing Arts Center (Brooklyn, NY)

Duet

   

»Savage Birds
2008
Premiere: CityParks Dance Festival (New York, NY) 

Duet 
6 Minutes

   

»Stained
2007 
Premiere: Joyce SoHo (New York, NY) 

Duet 
14 Minutes

   

»polar polar
2006
Premiere: Ailey Citigroup Theater (New York, NY) 

Duet 
12 Minutes

   

»Without Words 
2006 
Premiere: Tangente (Montreal, QC) 

Duet 
6 Minutes

   

Group Works:

   

»Great Expectations
Premiere: The Ailey Citigroup Theater (NYC)

4 Dancers
9 Minutes

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»your distance kept
2008
Premiere: Ailey Citigroup Theater (New York, NY) 

5 Dancers
9 minutes

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»Discrete Enthalpy: Unit I
2007 
Premiere: Ailey Citigroup Theater (New York, NY) 

Four Dancers 
9 Minutes
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»Fracturing Forms
2009
Premiere: Bessie Schonberg Choreographers Residency at The Yard (Chilmark, MA) 

Four Dancers 
16 Minutes

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»Light Is Calling
2005
Premiere: Moyse Hall (Montreal, QC) 

Five Dancers 
8 Minutes

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»Dissonant Tones: Broken Dances for Muted Pieces
2006
Premiere: Place des Arts (Montreal, QC) 

6 Dancers 
12 Minutes

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»In A Silent Way
2006
Premiere: Tribeca Performing Arts Center (New York, NY) 

8 Dancers 
30 Minutes

   

»Language & Possession
2005
Premiere: Purchase College (Purchase, NY) 

9 Dancers 
15 Minutes

   

»Dark Intervals
2004
Premiere: Purchase College (Purchase, NY) 

5 Dancers 
10 Minutes

   

»Women Apart
2004
Premiere: Purchase College (Purchase, NY) 

7 Dancers 
12 Minutes