Bita Bell is a dance artist and composer with a BA in music composition and an MFA in dance. Born in Iran, she studied in Hong Kong and lived in the U.S. from 2012 until moving from New York City to Vienna in 2020. Her artistic research and practice are based on the concepts of the body as archive, fragmented memories, collective imaginations, visceral sensations, radical softness, and playful improvisations. Her works aim to expose, question, and subvert socio-political matters that disrupt the joy in daily life. She recently completed the artistic fellowship at THIRD DAS Graduate School in Amsterdam where she self-published her first zine titled containing multitudes, at times fragmented: a compilation of personal, political, and poetic writings emerging from a diasporic experience of living through urgent times. She has been awarded the 2023 Startstipendium for Music and Performing Arts from the Austrian Federal Ministry for Arts and Culture and the 2024 DanceWeb Scholarship for Vienna’s Impulstanz International Festival.