Biba Bell: together

July 14 - 16, 2016

Both a combination of, and a departure from, the past few years of choreographer Biba Bell's research and performance engaging dance through an affective, archi-historic lens of modernism and domesticity, together marks a new movement of portrayal. Developed in residencies that span from Germany to Austin, Texas, together significantly draws upon ample time spent in a glass box and its accompanying green space - a Mies van der Rohe live/work apartment couched in Detroit's Lafayette Park. From the solo silhouette to the celebratory ensemble, dematerializing walls and stepping out to the music, the search for home may be best conceived in this dance together.

Dancers: Paige Martin, Jordan Holland, Christopher Braz, Ta'Rajee Omar and Biba Bell.
Curated by Stacy Grossfield

Biba Bell is a writer, dancer, and choreographer based in Detroit. She earned her Ph.D. in Performance Studies from New York University. Bell’s performance work has most recently been seen at Bas Fisher Invitational (Miami), the Kunstlerhaus (Bremen, Germany), the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, the Cranbrook Museum of Art, and in a Mies van der Rohe apartment in Detroit’s Lafayette Park. Bell was a 2015 DAAD guest professor of Experimental Performance at the University of the Arts (Hochschule für Künste) in Bremen, Germany, and is an Assistant Professor in the Maggie Allesee Department of Theatre and Dance at Wayne State University in Detroit. Alongside Mariana Valencia she is a co-editor of Critical Correspondence, Movement Research's online journal, and is on the editorial board for Detroit Research Journal of which she edited a special issue on choreography. She has been impacted by her work with MGM Grand (Modern Garage Movement), Maria Hassabi, and Walter Dundervill amongst others.