Thank you for your support in 2008!

Monday, January 7, 2008

Thank you for your support in 2008!

To those of you who have written, thank you for your wonderful support. I am looking forward to an exciting 2008. Please check out my website www.sidrabelldanceny.org for all of the details. Continue checking the blog for more updates on my work at Ballet Austin. I hope to hear from you again soon!

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About Me

My name is Sidra Bell. I am the Artistic Director of Sidra Bell Dance New York. I graduated from Yale University with a BA in History and received an MFA in choreography from Purchase College Conservatory of Dance. Since its inception in 2001, the company has presented three seasons featuring live jazz and dance at the Joseph P. Kennedy Center in Harlem, NY. The company has been presented at Tribeca Performing Arts Center, Yale University, Harvard University, the Schomburg Museum, Purchase College, Stella Adler Studio of Acting MAD AIR series, DancenOw/NYC at Dance Theater, Workshop, Alvin Ailey Citigroup Theater, Montreal's Danses Buisssoniéres at Tangente and Joyce SoHo Presents. The company performed a program of its repertory at the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inside/Out Series. My works have been performed in Spain, Aruba, Montreal, Vancouver and Toronto. Recent commissions include Alvin Ailey/Fordham BFA Program, Marygrove College (Detroit), Ballet Divertimento (Montreal), Arts Umbrella (Vancouver), Canadian Children's Dance Theater (Toronto), Purchase College, Perry Mansfield Performing Arts School, LaGuardia High School and Sacramento Ballet (2008). In 2005 and 2006, Sidra was selected to work as a young choreographer at Springboard Danse Montreal and created works that were performed at Moyse Hall and Place des Arts. Ms. Bell was a recipient of the Patricia Kerr Ross Award for choreographic achievement, sponsored by New York Foundation for the Arts, was a Tribeca Performing Arts Center Artist-in-Residence and was awarded a Bessie Schönberg Choreographers Residency at The Yard in 2007.

About New American Talent/Dance

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Monday, January 7, 2008