Ian Spencer Bell, “a dancer of gentle but defined precision” (The New York Times) and “stealthy as a nocturnal feline” (The Village Voice), performs Duet + Marrow, two dance works with original poetry. Gary Champi and Joshua Tuason join Bell onstage.

Bell creates a queer language of his own. The New York Times writes “his movement itself seems to do the talking, physical sentences inseparable from verbal ones—neither upstaging the other—so that what results is not dance and not poetry but some third medium.”

In Duet, Bell brings to life his poem about his relationship with a dancer who, in early 2000s Brooklyn, concealed that he was HIV positive. Marrow is about growing up queer in Virginia in the 1980s.

Bell has danced his solo works at CounterPulse in San Francisco, Poetry Foundation in Chicago, Queens Museum in New York City, and in Massachusetts at Bard College at Simon’s Rock and Jacob’s Pillow.