Choreography and Direction Sidra Bell

Dramaturgy Sophia Halimah Parker

Music Immanuel Wilkins and Christian Werner

Costume Design Mark Eric

Production Support Mike Roche and Rory Golden

Images Alice Chacon and Stephanie Berger

Premiere Performance Pyramid in the Flight of Egypt Exhibit, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York - February 7, 2024

G R A P H, a new work featuring Sidra Bell Dance New York and saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins, is a series of utterances, assemblages, etymologies, and figurative drawings exploring liberation as a necessity for improvisational design and embodied expression. The piece explores unyielding symmetry and the distortion of classical lines through the labor of the performers and sonic emissions from the horn. Within the cascading, blooming, and disappearing structures, the performers create a mural of images with the surfaces of their bodies. The work peers at Egypt’s monumental richness using the framework of bodily engagement to imagine its myths and meditations.

G R A P H Sidra Bell Dance NY Flight into Egypt MET Museum Exhibition choreography Sidra Bell costume design MARK ERIC
G R A P H Sidra Bell Dance NY Flight into Egypt MET Museum Exhibition choreography Sidra Bell costume design MARK ERIC
G R A P H Sidra Bell Dance NY Flight into Egypt MET Museum Exhibition choreography Sidra Bell costume design MARK ERIC
G R A P H Sidra Bell Dance NY Flight into Egypt MET Museum Exhibition choreography Sidra Bell costume design MARK ERIC
G R A P H Sidra Bell Dance NY Flight into Egypt MET Museum Exhibition choreography Sidra Bell costume design MARK ERIC
G R A P H Sidra Bell Dance NY Flight into Egypt MET Museum Exhibition choreography Sidra Bell costume design MARK ERIC
G R A P H Sidra Bell Dance NY Flight into Egypt MET Museum Exhibition choreography Sidra Bell costume design MARK ERIC
G R A P H Sidra Bell Dance NY Flight into Egypt MET Museum Exhibition choreography Sidra Bell costume design MARK ERIC
G R A P H Sidra Bell Dance NY Flight into Egypt MET Museum Exhibition choreography Sidra Bell costume design MARK ERIC
G R A P H Sidra Bell Dance NY Flight into Egypt MET Museum Exhibition choreography Sidra Bell costume design MARK ERIC

Collaborators Erica Johnston . Caitlin Taylor . International Pleating 

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