02/04/2025
G R A P H, a new work featuring Sidra Bell Dance New York and saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins, is a series of utterances, assemblages, etymologies, and figurative drawings exploring liberation as a necessity for improvisational design and embodied expression. The piece explores unyielding symmetry and the distortion of classical lines through the labor of the performers and sonic emissions from the horn. Within the cascading, blooming, and disappearing structures, the performers create a mural of images with the surfaces of their bodies. The work peers at Egypt’s monumental richness using the framework of bodily engagement to imagine its myths and meditations.
Directed by Sidra Bell
Dancers & Collaborators: Sidra Bell, AJ Libert, Sophia Halimah Parker, Camille Phelps, Christian Warner
Composer and Saxophonist: Immanuel Wilkins
Dramaturgical Support: Sophia Halimah Parker
Production Support: Mike Roche & Rory Golden
Media Team: Alice Chacon Photography & Umi Akiyoshi Photography
Costume Design and Construction: Mark Eric
Assistant to the Costume Designer: Erica Johnston
Additional Music Design: Christian Warner
Artistic Advisors: Claudette Bell, Dennis Bell, Dacia Washington
Special thanks to: Creative Capital, Disney, Chez Bushwick, Rene Calvo, Renee Troiano, Alexandra Wells, Camele-Ann White, Albert Feuer, Dale Djerassi & Alexandra McDowell, Rachel Skrzypczak, Dennis & Claudette Bell, Mila Henry, Susan & Peter Larson, Ofra Bloch, Jason Baynes, Trevor Jadoo, Dacia Washington, Alan Franklin, Beverly Russell, Betsy Hall, Elizabeth Sledge, Lee Spencer, Abby Hirsch, Paul Battisti, Daniel Tintor
Dedicated in loving memory of beautiful artist and friend Clare Mallaney
