DESCRIPTION: Award winning bi-annual research laboratory for advanced and professional artists in New York City a space to interface and incubate with the critically acclaimed Sidra Bell Dance New York. The project invites them into the intimate creative culture of the company and asks them to commit to creative stakeholding. Laboratories are non-competitive spaces for sustained inquiry, rigor, and experimentation for movers of all backgrounds and curiosities. Artists have the opportunity to dialogue and research with the artistic director through 42 hours of laboratory work and dialogues to deepen their approach to the material and its unique methodology.

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SUBJECT MATTER: method, phrasing, collective ear, creative modeling, patient practice, constructivism, deconstructivism, systems, coaching, modes, dialogue, ephemeral language, receptive points, process, macro/micro visioning, drafting, illustration, stakeholders, our work, circles of mentorship, multiple brains & awarenesses, inside & uncovering form, the unsaid, performance skins, failsafe, first person voice, remembering, 3 globes, undulating, looping, integrating, 13 hangs, 15 breaths, dismantling, recording, decoding, performing time, encountering, repeating, referring, inherency, creative communities, scoring, other bodies, futureforms, infinite research.

For more information: 

module@sidrabelldanceny.org