Simon’s Rock will host the dance performance FACES, presented by Ian Spencer Bell. This event features an interpretation of Isadora Duncan’s The Many Faces of Love, Merce Cunningham’s solo from Roaratorio, and Ian Spencer Bell’s Rosing, with live performance by pianist Lauren Aloia.
FACES presented by Ian Spencer Bell will occur at 3 p.m. on Saturday, April 1, in the McConnell Theater at the Daniel Arts Center. This event is free and will include a talkback with Ian Spencer Bell after the show.
Ian Spencer Bell is a dancer and a poet. His first performances were awarded a grant from the Virginia Commission for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. He has danced his work at the 92nd Street Y, Boston Center for the Arts, Jacob’s Pillow, National Arts Club, Poetry Foundation, and Queens Museum. His writing has been published by Ballet Review, Baryshnikov Arts Center, Dance Magazine, Movement Research, and The Yale Review.
For a decade throughout the United States, Bell led education and training programs for American Ballet Theatre. His work with children for ABT was danced at the Los Angeles Music Center and the Metropolitan Opera. Bell has been a visiting artist at Bard College at Simon’s Rock and Vassar College. He is on faculty at Nightingale-Bamford School.
Bell was born in Washington, DC, and grew up in Fauquier County, Virginia. He trained at North Carolina School of the Arts, Pacific Northwest Ballet School, and School of American Ballet and was educated at Sarah Lawrence College and New York University. For more information, visit http://ianspencerbell.com/
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