Sidra Bell

Sidra Bell has a BA in History from Yale University and an MFA in Choreography from Purchase College Conservatory of Dance. She is currently an adjunct professor at Barnard College (Columbia University). 

Her work has been seen at many premier venues throughout the United States and internationally in Denmark, Austria, Germany, Canada, Aruba, Spain, France, Brazil, and Greece. Bell has been commissioned for many special projects nationally and internationally. A solo work, Conductivity, won Second Prize for performance at the Internationales Solo-Tanz-Theatre Festival in Stuttgart, Germany, in 2009 and then toured in Greece and in select German cities. She was invited back to Stuttgart for the 2011 Solo-Tanz-Theatre Festival with a new solo, Grief Point, for which she received First Prize for Choreography and her dancer, Moo Kim, received First Prize for Performance.  

Recent commissions include River North Chicago Dance Company, The Ailey School, The Duo Theatre, Ballet Divertimento (Montréal), Arts Umbrella Dance Company (Vancouver), Canadian Children’s Dance Theatre (Toronto), Purchase College Conservatory of Dance, Springboard Danse Montréal, National Choreographers Initiative, The Margie Gillis Foundation, and Stella Adler Studio of Acting/NYU and Conservatory Programs. 

Bell is a sought-after master teacher and has taught her unique approach to creative process, improvisation, and technique called Contemporary Systems at many prestigious institutions for dance and theater throughout the United States and in Canada.