Series 2 Artists
Sidra Bell
Sidra Bell New York is a New York City contemporary dance company presenting innovative, provocative, and kinetic dance theater works. Bell excavates the psyche and themes that are life affirming. The company’s repertoire is haunting, emotionally transporting, complex, articulate, sensual, and highly physical.
The company is known for atmospheric, unconventional, spectacular, and forward looking works that push past dance’s traditional vocabulary, venues, and boundaries.
Bell received First Prize for Choreography at the 15th Internationales solo Tanz-Theatre Festival in Stuttgart, Germany(2011), creative residencies at The Duo theater, Stella Adler Studio of Acting, New York Live Arts, and Dance Theater Workshop, and have presented work at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival/Inside/Out series, Symphony Space, The Duo theater, and Skirball Performing Arts Center.
“Bell has an approach to the body; a deconstructor, hyperarticulator that makes her dancers look inhuman like broken marionettes or robots on the fritz. In Bell’s POOL the grotesquerie suggests decadence, disease, a Forsythean horror show…”
- The New Yorker
Klimchak
Klimchak specializes in electro-acoustic music for theater, dance and live solo performance. He is the winner of the 2009 Loridans Arts Award, a $15,000 cash prize given to “accomplished artists who have made exceptional contributions to the arts life of Atlanta” or as it’s often called, “Atlanta’s MacArthur Genius Award.” Klimchak’s 2009 score for Titus Andronicus at Ga Shakespeare won a Suzi Award for best sound design. His homebuilt instruments & performances were displayed in 2010 in the art show Limitless at Agnes Scott College.
In January 2011, Klimchak was given a grant by Idea Capital to design & make some new percussion instruments & compose music for them. These will be performed in 2011-2012 by a group of 4 musicians as flash percussion performances, in a series titled Klimchak’s Lebeato Lounge.
As a solo performer, Klimchak gives shows in clubs and alternative spaces, which feature his talents on the amazing Don Buchla Marimba Lumina. With the Marimba Lumina Klimchak is able to perform live music that would normally take at least 4 musicians. His multi-instrumental compositions are played with 4 separate mallets, six foot pedals and a breath controller. As added touches, his sets usually include 4 or 5 small percussion instruments, ethnic wind instruments, and some chanting or tuvan throat singing. And on a good evening he’ll also add in some theremin to the mix.
George Staib | Staib Dance
Since its debut in 2007, Atlanta-based, Staibdance has produced five concerts including an evening-length collaboration with the internationally acclaimed Vega String Quartet in February of 2009.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution called the performance “magnetic, tense and euphoric – like romance itself” and hailed the choreography as “bold and kinetic” and “seamlessly tuned to the music.”
Following the success of that performance, Staibdance was produced at the annual Big Range Festival at the Barnevelder Theater in Houston, Texas. Reviewer Neil Ellis Orts of Dance Source Houston praised Staib for his “strong command of a diverse movement vocabulary and [his] gift for large-cast dances.” Staibdance was also a proud participant at the Cobb Energy Center’s Overture to the Arts in the fall of 2009.
“Fascinating movement nuances, a mastery of spatial techniques, surprising theatricality coupled with intense depth of expression.”
– Eric Matherson; Philadelphia Inquirer
Zoe/Juniper
Zoe/Juniper (Seattle) are drawn together as collaborators by their respect for and subverted use of classical form, aesthetic clarity and the desire to create a sense of heightened reality.
Zoe Scofield and Juniper Shuey began their collaboration in 2004 with; I am nothing without you, for On the Boards’ NW New Works Festival 2005. Spectrum Dance Theater, the Frye Art Museum and Ten Tiny Dances have commissioned the in company 2007, 2008 and 2009 respectively.
They received a NPN Creation Fund and Residency commission, and a National Dance Project Production Grant (2008-2009) for their work the devil you know is better than the devil you don’t.. zoe | juniper are recipients of an Artist Trust Fellowship and GAP grant and received a National Dance Project Production.
A Crack in Everything premiered in 2011 at Jacob’s Pillow and will tour throughout 2013.