User:Hexatekin/sandbox/Lydia Bell
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Lydia Bell is a dancer, choreographer, and performance artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Bell grew up in Portland, Oregon and graduated from Wesleyan University in 2007 with a B.A. in Dance and Classics.[1]
Bell has shown at Arts Cure Center, Envoy enterprises, Eyelevel Gallery, Flux Factory, Kills Center, and Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning and Urban Art Projects.[2][3]
Curation[edit]
Bell has curated several exhibitions at New York City's Danspace Project including; "A Matter of Practice" in May 2012 featuring Yve Laris Cohen, Xaviera Simmons, Arturo Vidich, and Larissa Velez-Jackson, and an event for the "Food for Thought" series.[4]
Bell also curated "Performing the Precarious: Cut Piece" for dancer Xaviera Simmons for the "Come Together: Surviving Sandy" show [5]
She was also an editor at Movement Research in New York.[6]