Sidra Bell Dance Announces 2018 NYC Season

Sidra Bell Dance New York launches its New York City Season June 28-July 1 at New York Live Arts featuring a new work FRICTION with music composed and performed live by Juilliard trained dynamo Alexey Gorokholinsky. FRICTION is paired with 2014's critically acclaimed g arment which premiered in Pittsburgh at the Kelly Strayhorn Theater and was named #1 in Contemporary Dance by the Pittsburgh Examiner.

SIDRA BELL DANCE NEW YORK is gaining an international profile for work that reveals aspects of the human condition through a female lens. The work demands physical power and tender expressiveness from her ensemble. The Company and Bell's work has been performed extensively throughout the USA, Europe, Eastern Europe, Asia, Canada, and South America. It was named "#1 in Contemporary Dance" by the Pittsburgh Examiner, as one of ArtsATL's "Notable Dance Performances", and in the "Top 10 for Best in Dance" by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Bell's intuitive process is collaborative and emphasizes the integration of design elements including media and fashion. BELL is a sought after educator and has won several awards. She received commissions from institutions internationally and has produced over 100 new works. She was the choreographer on the critically acclaimed feature movie entitled TEST. SBDNY has an educational and mentorship program and works with institutions with an emphasis on young artist development. SBDNY was awarded a National Dance Project Award and was one of 25 inaugural companies to receive the Dance Advancement Fund Award from Dance/NYC. Recent features include Andy Warhol's Interview Magazine, a mini book collaboration with fashion photographer Lloyd Stevie, and the January 2018 cover of Dance Magazine featuring SBDNY artist Leal Zielin?ska as one of 25 to Watch "Breakout Stars of 2018". SBDNY was featured in director Jovan Todorovic's film as part of MOTIONPOEMS' 8th Season.

AboutFRICTION(newwork)

FRICTION is a collaboration between Sidra Bell Dance New York, Juilliard trained electronic composer and clarinetist Alexey Gorokholinsky and lighting designer/creative director Amith Chandrashaker. The work navigates resistance, violence, desensitization, and counter culture. We will look at the current trajectory of despair and dystopia that permeates our relationship to other bodies. The idea of friction in the physicality, space, and music was prompted by a personal navigation of disconnection, loneliness, and aimlessness. It will deal with finding roots and anchoring oneself in tumultuousness. The has a poetic structure steeped in imagery and sensation. The work lives in a state of recalibration not necessarily ever finding a center or stasis. Through entry points (movement, sound, light, de?cor) we will create an atmosphere that embraces instability and counter activity.

About g arment (2014)

g arment is a playful jaunt that attempts to rescue the individual by constructing a world that navigates popular zeitgeists. Conceived through materials the work exercises small performance ceremonies to observe identity, appropriation, transfiguration, nonsense, influence, authorship, and reformation. you'll be remembered...###

Photography: David Flores Productions (2018)