The third and final performance of Gelsey Bell’s residency will consist of two collaborative duets: a new work created with her sister, choreographer and dancer Biba Bell, and a concert version of music created with John King last year for Compagnie CNDC-Angers’s performance of Merce Cunningham.
Gelsey and Biba are both alumns of the Department of Performance Studies (PhD '15).
Despite their long history of collaborations with other artists, this will be the first time the Bell sisters have created a work together. With a shared interest in the idiosyncrasies of site and disrupting conventional audience/performer relationships, this new work will be a meeting of aesthetic and philosophical inquiries that have followed the sisters throughout their lives, sometimes blurring and sometimes accenting the idioms of their chosen disciplines, music, and dance.
WHEN: Sunday, April 24, 2016 @ 8:00 pm
WHERE: Roulette, 509 Atlantic, Brooklyn, NY 11217 (at the corner of 3rd and Atlantic)
Other News
Gelsey recently had a successful tour of Prisoner's Song, by Gelsey Bell and Erik Ruin, in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington DC, raising over $1200 for organizations supporting the formerly incarcerated and prison reform and is looking forward to more touring possibilities.
She is heading to Broadway in the fall with Dave Malloy's "Natasha, Pierre, & the Great Comet of 1812."