Excerpt: "After years away from the stage, Bell recently started dancing again, performing in a series of collaborations with the sound artist Sita Chay. “That’s been really liberating for me,” she says. "It’s on my own terms.'"

 

"Bell appreciates that it’s becoming more common for dancers to start choreographing earlier in their careers, and that the categories of “dancer” and “choreographer” have somewhat collapsed. 'I think there’s a paradigmatic shift happening now, where things are more fluid,' she says. 'There’s more softness around dancing for much longer, and you can leave and return. I love that fluidity—I think it can create a more sustainable model for young artists to know that it doesn’t have to be so fixed in these categories.'"

 

 

Slideshow photos of Sidra Bell's exhibit and performance G R A P H at The Met, New York, NY