ttgsf guest artists
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Rena Butler hails from Chicago, IL, and began her studies at The Chicago Academy for the Arts. She studied overseas at Taipei National University of the Arts in Taiwan, and received her BFA from SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Dance. Rena performed with companies including Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, AIM by Kyle Abraham, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, David Dorfman Dance, The Kevin Wynn Collection, Pasos Con Sabor Salsa Dance Company, and Gibney Company.
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Rena Butler
Sidra Bell is the founder of Sidra Bell Dance New York and a dancer, choreographer, and educator. She has been an artist in residence at University of Oklahoma (Brackett Distinguished Visiting Artist Chair), Visiting Lecturer and Artist in Residence at Harvard University, and an Adjunct Professor at Barnard College. Bell received a BA in History from Yale and an MFA in Choreography from Purchase College. She is the founder of the award winning MODULE Laboratory. Bell has won awards for her work, notably a First Prize for Choreography at the Solo Tanz Theater Festival in Stuttgart, Germany, a National Dance Project Production Award from NEFA and Creative Capital Wild Futures Award. In 2017 Mayor Thomas Roach named February 3 "Sidra Bell Day" in White Plains, NY. Her work has been seen throughout the United States and in Denmark, France, Austria, Bulgaria, Turkey, Slovenia, Sweden, Germany, China, Canada, Aruba, Korea, Brazil, and Greece.
Sidra Bell
David Harvey is a Seattle-based dance artist. He danced for Alonzo King Lines Ballet from 2008-2014, and has since worked with choreographers Bobbi Jene Smith, Sarah Foster-Sproull, Tom Weinberger and Lavinia Vago. He was a member of Kate Wallich’s The YC, has guested with Contemporary Dance Wyoming and has been a collaborator of Out InnerSpace Dance Theatre since 2017. Harvey was an Artistic Partnership Initiative Fellow at Center for Ballet and the Arts at NYU in 2021. His latest work, Chimera, a collaboration with Babatunji Johnson, was presented as a part of ODC’s 2024 State of Play Festival.
Photo | Quinn Wharton
David Harvey