Sidra Bell, LEVYdance in residency

Upon first walking into LEVYdance's Heron Street rehearsal studio, it's hard to find choreographer Sidra Bell. Dancers Scott Marlowe, Yu Kondo Reigen, Paul Vickers, Josiane Valbuena and Sarah Woods are moving in pairs and solos throughout the sea-foam green space and the artistic director of the 10-year-old company, Benjamin Levy, lurks watchfully behind a table to one side of the studio.

It's only after a long moment that you hear Bell's voice coming from deep in a corner of the room, where she's hunkered down on the floor with a laptop, from which she controls the soundscape that underlies her latest commission "less," a work LEVYdance premieres this weekend at the ODC Theater.

Not that Bell is by any means retiring by nature. But what becomes clear is that her working style is to step out of the way of the dancers, both figuratively and literally.

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