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CONTEMPORARY ENERGY with Biba Bell

  • Andy Arts Center 3000 Fenkell Avenue Detroit, MI, 48238 United States (map)

CONTEMPORARY ENERGY

This is a contemporary technique class focused on the physicality of ENERGY. Dancing the ebbs and flows of ENERGY, we will cover ground: on and across the floor of the studio and through the landscape of our own bodies – our musculatures, vibrations, densities, desires, and relationships to gravity. We will play in cycles of ENERGY, as they pick us up and drop us down. We will harness ENERGY through sequential articulation. We will dance to music and find ENERGY within it. We will get warm and sweaty. We will move. The class culminates in a long phrase that we could easily transition from studio to park to beach to living room to stage.

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Wednesday, April 17th
10 - 11:30 am
Sliding Scale: $5-10 Suggested

Location: Andy Arts Center, 3000 Fenkell Ave, Detroit, MI 48238
Class will be in the Corner Studio

Biba Bell is a dancer, choreographer, and writer based in Detroit. Her choreographic work, often set in unconventional venues, focuses on domesticity, labor, and architecture. Her current project investigates dance and arts activism as it intersects forest protection and conservation, through the lens of what she theorizes as epiphytic choreographies. Bell’s work has been presented at the Kitchen, Danspace Project, Movement Research, Roulette Intermedium, Jack NY, Centre Pompidou, Garage for Contemporary Culture, Jack Hanley Gallery, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts, Insel Hombroich, amongst others. She has performed with Maria Hassabi and Walter Dundervill and was a founding member of the performance collective Modern Garage Movement (2005-2011, 2021). She earned her PhD in Performance Studies from New York University and is an Associate Professor of Dance at Wayne State University. Of her dancing the New York Times writes "It’s invigorating to watch someone who borders on wild."

Earlier Event: April 10
CONTEMPORARY ENERGY with Biba Bell
Later Event: April 24
CONTEMPORARY ENERGY with Biba Bell