Sidra Bell, Artistic Director of Sidra Bell Dance New York, graduated from Yale University with a BA in History and received an M.F.A. in Choreography from Purchase College Conservatory of Dance. She received her training at Dance Theater of Harlem and The Ailey School. Ms. Bell’s works have been performed in Spain, Aruba, Montreal, Vancouver and Toronto. She received recent commissions from Ailey/Fordham B.F.A. Program, Ballet Divertimento, Arts Umbrella, Canadian Children’s Dance Theatre in Toronto, Purchase College, Perry Mansfield, LaGuardia High School, Ballet Austin, Sacramento Ballet, Ailey II and The Juilliard School. Her company has been presented at Tribeca PAC, Dance Theater Workshop, Montreal’s Tangente, Riverside Church, CityParks Dance Festival, Stella Adler Studio of Acting, the Margie Gillis Foundation, Baryshnikov Arts Center, Joyce SoHo and the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival Inside/Out Series. Ms. Bell was selected to work as a choreographer at Springboard Danse Montreal and created works that were presented at Place des Arts, Piscine-Théâtre, and Usine C. She received of the Patricia Kerr Ross Award from New York Foundation for the Arts and was awarded a Bessie Schönberg Choreographers Residency at The Yard.