Episode 34: New Combinations: Sidra and Dennis Bell

City Ballet The Podcast

City Ballet The Podcast’s season finale has arrived with a fresh New Combinations episode, just in time for NYCB’s first ever digital New Works Festival. In the lead up to the Festival’s premiere, host Associate Artistic Director Wendy Whelan is joined by Sidra Bell, choreographer of the opening night work, and her father Dennis, who composed the commissioned score to her piece. Native New Yorkers and lifelong collaborators, the Bells describe the processes behind the creation of both the dance and the music, the ways in which their long-standing connections with Lincoln Center and New York City Ballet informed the work, and how this collaboration represents a “homecoming.” (27:15)

Music: "Sisyphus" by Andrew Wegman Bird Wixen Music Publishing, Inc. as agent for Muffet Music Co