Ian Spencer Bell is an American dancer, choreographer, teacher, and poet best known for his genre-blurring work Marrow.

At 17, Bell moved to Seattle, Washington, to study at Pacific Northwest Ballet.

[5] Two years later, he premiered his work in New York City at the National Arts Club.

He has performed his solo work at the Poetry Foundation, the Queens Museum, and Jacob’s Pillow, where he has also taught and been a research fellow.

[8][9] In 2014, The New York Times in a review of Elsewhere called Bell "a dancer of gentle but defined precision" and wrote: “At its best, his movement itself seems to do the talking, physical sentences inseparable from verbal ones so that what results is not dance and not poetry but some third medium.