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 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.

Directed by Sidra Bell

Dancers and Collaborators: Sidra Bell, AJ Libert, Sophia Halimah Parker, Camille Phelps, Christian Warner

Composer and Saxophonist: Immanuel Wilkins

Dramaturgical Support: Sophia Halimah Parker

Production Support: Mike Roche & Rory Golden

Media Team: Alice Chacon Photography and Umi Akiyoshi with media support from Cat Caruncho and Stanislav Przedlacki

Costume Design and Construction: mark Eric

Assistant to the Costume Designer: Erica Johnston

Additional Music Design: Christian Warner

Artistic Advisors: Claudette Bell, Dennis Bell, Dacia Washington