Sidra Bell
Danse Lumière
presents
an Open Rehearsal for Sidra Bell's Performance
at 520 8th Avenue, 16th floor
on April 6, 2022 from 10am-12pm
&
A Conversation on
Women Choreographers
with Sidra Bell
on April 8, 2022 at 7pm
Martha Graham Studio Theater
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Please join us:
Wednesday, April 6, 2022, 10am-12pm ET
Friday, April 8, 2022 at 7pm ET
RSVP to Michelle Tabnick: michelle@michelletabnickpr.com, 646-765-4773
Danse Lumière presents a Conversation with Sidra Bell
on April 8, 2022 at 7:00pm at the Martha Graham Studio Theater, 55
Bethune Street, NYC. Tickets are $25 and can be purchased online at https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/5372130, by phone at 1-800-838-3006, or in person at the Martha Graham Studio Theater Box Office on the day of the event.
Danse Lumière’s Artistic Director Kathryn Roszak will discuss the surge of women in leadership in dance with choreographer Sidra Bell, followed by a
brief presentation of Bell’s work. Bell was invited by Roszak to be a
part of the Women Directors, Choreographers, and Composers Award given
to Wendy Whalen, Associate Artistic Director of New York City Ballet, in
New York City in October of 2021.
“We
are in the midst of a period of great change in the dance community,”
said Bell. “Bringing more women into leadership positions is just the
first step in a larger journey.”
As
the founder of the annual Women Directors, Choreographers, and
Composers Residency, Roszak believes residencies are a crucial step to
bringing women to the forefront of the industry.
“This
residency highlights choreographic, musical works and leadership by
women,” said Roszak. “We help women artists further develop their work
while giving them greater opportunity and visibility.”
The
presentation of Bell’s work will be performed by Company artists
Madison Hicks, Mio Ishikawa, Kimie Parker, Uma Shannon, Gilbert T Small
II, and Channce William.
Selections include:
Savage Birds (World Premiere, 2008, Stella Adler Studio of Acting, NYC)
POOL (Excerpt, World Premiere, 2011, Dance Theater Workshop, NYC)
random stars (World Premiere, 2020, Dance Theater Lab at Purchase College, Purchase, NY)
Inside (World Premiere, 2013, The Joyce Theater, NYC)
Kathryn Roszak trained
as a dancer on Ford Foundation scholarships at San Francisco Ballet,
and at the School of American Ballet in New York. Ms. Roszak performed
for many years with the San Francisco Opera Ballet and has danced with
San Francisco Ballet and San Antonio Ballet.
Ms.
Roszak trained as an actor in the Advanced Training Program of the
American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, and at the London
Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. She has performed, choreographed
and/or taught at the American Conservatory Theater as well as Berkeley
Repertory Theatre, San Francisco Opera Center, Shakespeare Festival, the
Berkeley Symphony with Kent Nagano, Opera San Jose, Sacramento Opera,
Oakland and Marin Operas. She has created and produced original works
for the Goethe Institute and the San Francisco Mozart Festival, Theatre
Artaud, the Cowell Theatre, and Grace Cathedral in San Francisco.
In
1995, Ms. Roszak founded Danse Lumière (known as Anima Mundi until
2006), and has since specialized in the creation of her own original
productions. Her unique approach brings new audiences to classical art
forms by blending and innovating within the disciplines of dance,
literature, music, visual art, and theater. Cross-cultural and
interdisciplinary collaborations have included working with Kabuki
master Shozo Sato; choreographer Alonzo King; playwright Velina Hasu
Houston; musicians Mazatl Galindo of Mexico and Ailu Gaup of Arctic
Norway; composer Gordon Getty; and writers Gary Snyder, Michael McClure,
and Maxine Hong Kingston.
Ms. Roszak teaches at U.C. Berkeley and served as the dance specialist for Cal Performances. She’s written for Dance Magazine, Theatre Bay Area, and the San Francisco Chronicle.
Ms.
Roszak was invited to be an Artist in Residence at the Djerassi
Resident Artists Program in California where she has also served on the
Choreography panel. She produces the annual Women Ballet Choreographers
Residency there.
Ms.
Roszak's work has been presented in the San Francisco Bay Area by the
University of San Francisco and by The Asian Art Museum and in New York
City by La MaMa ETC, Scandinavia House, and by the 92nd Street Y.
Internationally her work has been presented by Copenhagen Festival,
Denmark, Les Amis du 7, Dijon, France, and her choreographic work in
Norway was supported by the Royal Norwegian Consulate. Ms. Roszak's
selected grants and awards include Ann and Gordon Getty, Barbro Osher
Pro Suecia Foundation, and Laurance S. Rockefeller.
Sidra Bell’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 three choreographers, 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.
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 of the 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
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, University of Minnesota, Point Park
University, 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, and before the
pandemic she was to return with her company for the final production.
She is the first Black woman ever to create a new work for New York City
Ballet in October 2020.
In
2012, Bell was commissioned as the choreographer for the feature film
TESTset 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. Other commercial work
includes casting and event coordination for MTV, Revlon, BookAFlashMob,
Interview Magazine with photographer Billy Kidd and stylist Katie
Burnett, NOWNESS with director Jovan Todorovic, Daisies Art Fair with
director Sandra Winther, fashion photographer Lloyd Stevie & stylist
Alison Mazur, New York Times' T Magazine (New York Times' Style Magazine), Granary 1 Magazine, and Paris Fashion Week for Baserange.
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.
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