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Updated 12/18/2018

Alexander Davis Dance (ADD)

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    MA

Institution/Business Type: Performing Group

Alexander Davis Dance (ADD) is a project based contemporary dance company located in Boston, MA. 

ADD believes that dance and movement has the power to create empathetic and dramatic responses from diverse audiences. Drawing from pop culture and the pedestrian, we engage in performances that display the innate theatricality of everyday life. We show the universality of the human experiences, while illuminating queer and forgotten perspectives. We make performances that connect people to other people, the past to the present and memories to dreams. We bring forward under repersented queer narratives, while providing a platform for alternative repersentations. We reveal the Imperfections that exist along the lifelong journey to negotiate the Perfect.

Alexander Davis is a graduate of Keene State College where he received a BA in English: Writing, and a BA in Theatre and Dance: Choreography and Performance.  Alex has worked, performed and presented with organizations across Boston including Ryan Landry's Gold Dust Orphans, Boston Lyric Opera, Boston Children's Chorus, World Music/CRASHarts and Improv Asylum/Laugh Boston. Alex is currently a company member with Urbanity Dance, where he is also the director of the their Summer Choreographer Intensive Program. As a choreographer and fiber artist Alex has received grant and residency support from The Studios at Mass MoCA, The Boston Foundation, Urbanity Dance, and The Theatre Offensive. Alex and collaborator Joy Davis (The Davis Sisters) were named Bessie Schonberg (Boston) Fellows at The Yard where the developed their most newest collaborative work Junk Drawer. Most recently, Alex is assisting choreographer Monica Bill Barnes on Greta Gerwig’s film adaptation Little Women, set for release in December 2019. Alex is a passionate arts administrator, a published memoirist, a college professor, an exhibited fiber artist, a sexual consent educator, and an okay comedian. www.alexanderdavis.dance @AlexanderDavisDance

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Alexander Davis
Job Title: Director
Phone: 603-801-2362
Address:
149 Massachusetts Ave.
Apt. 4
Boston, MA 02115

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About

Overview

Institution/Business Type:

Performing Group

Legal Status:

Nonprofit - Embedded in cultural private organization

Parent Organization:

Boston Dance Alliance

Year Founded:

2017

Overview

Institution/Business Type:

Performing Group

Legal Status:

Nonprofit - Embedded in cultural private organization

Parent Organization:

Boston Dance Alliance

Year Founded:

2017

Disciplines

Primary Discipline:

Dance - Modern / Contemporary

Additional Disciplines:

  • Multi-Disciplinary

Activities and Services

Activities and Services:

  • Performance / Concert / Reading
  • Public Art Projects (In Free, Public Spaces)
  • Residency - Community
  • Residency - In School
  • Residency - Production / Development
  • Residency - Other
  • Workshops / Demonstrations / Master Class
Seasons Active: spring, summer, fall, winter
Events Per Year: 6

Communities

Populations Engaged:

  • General Public
  • LGBTQ Populations

Geographic Reach:

  • Town / City
  • County
  • Multi-County Region
  • State
  • Multi-State Region
  • National

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I Have Worked With

Affiliations and Accomplishments

Professional Associations

Professional Associations:

  • Boston Dance Alliance Premium Member
  • Stage Source Individual Member
  • Dance for PD Teaching Member

Professional Associations

Professional Associations:

  • Boston Dance Alliance Premium Member
  • Stage Source Individual Member
  • Dance for PD Teaching Member

Awards

Awards:

  • Live Arts Boston 2016, The Boston Foundation
  • Next Steps in Boston Dance 2016, The Boston Foundation
  • The Theater Offensive Out'Hood Residency Program Material Fund 2017
  • Boston Cultural Council Opportunity Fund, February 2017
  • Bruce Levin Mellion '69 Excellence in Dance Award 2014, Keene State College
  • Charles Hildebrandt Award in Holocaust and Genocide Studies 2014, Keene State College
  • Live Arts Boston 2017, The Boston Foundation
  • Boston Cultural Council Opportunity Fund, February 2018
  • The Studios at Mass MoCA Residency

Education

Education:

  • B.A. Theatre and Dance: Choreography and Performance, Keene State College
  • B.A. English: Writing, Keene State College
  • American Dance Festival 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018
  • David Dorfman Summer Dance Intensive 2013
  • Bates Dance Festival PTP 2018

Artist Info

Teaching Artist

Teaching Settings:

  • Afterschool Program
  • Arts and Cultural Center / Venue
  • Community Site / Center
  • Corporate Business
  • Healthcare Facility
  • Private Studio
  • School / University

Ages Served:

  • Pre-Kindergarten-age
  • Elementary School-age
  • Middle School-age
  • High School-age
  • College-age
  • Adults
  • Seniors

Subject Areas:

  • Arts Integration - Physical Education
  • Dance
  • Theater
  • Visual/Crafts

Certifications and Training:

  • Dance for PD, Mark Morris Dance Group

Fee range:

$50 - $1,500

Teaching Artist

Teaching Settings:

  • Afterschool Program
  • Arts and Cultural Center / Venue
  • Community Site / Center
  • Corporate Business
  • Healthcare Facility
  • Private Studio
  • School / University

Ages Served:

  • Pre-Kindergarten-age
  • Elementary School-age
  • Middle School-age
  • High School-age
  • College-age
  • Adults
  • Seniors

Subject Areas:

  • Arts Integration - Physical Education
  • Dance
  • Theater
  • Visual/Crafts

Certifications and Training:

  • Dance for PD, Mark Morris Dance Group

Fee range:

$50 - $1,500

Touring Artist

NEST Eligible Artist

Technical Requirements:

  • Negotiated based on individual events.
  • 6' of Space

Fee Range:

$250 - $10,000

State of Residence:

Massachusetts

Minimum Number of Performers:

1

Maximum Number of Performers:

8