Alethea Alexander is an M.F.A. candidate in Dance at the University of Washington, Seattle. Her academic interests include accessibility and inclusivity of education, especially as related to classroom practices (within the university) and the appli
...MoreAlethea Alexander is an M.F.A. candidate in Dance at the University of Washington, Seattle. Her academic interests include accessibility and inclusivity of education, especially as related to classroom practices (within the university) and the application of scholarly work to popular culture and discourse (disseminated outside of academic publications and spaces). She has presented dance works and conversations for educational matinees at Western Washington University, and spoke about “Embodied Learning and Active Inclusivity” (University of Washington Graduate Conference, 2017). Blending physical and artistic practices of dance with American pop-culture cinema and neurobiology, Alethea’s body of research includes a series of interviews describing women’s physicalities of empowerment and confidence and the impacts of observing movement of women’s bodies in film (Graduate Student Conference in Dance, University of Washington, 2017). She is also working to expand dance audiences and blend academia with pop-culture by using Hollywood cinema as a lens through which to examine dance history. Alethea performed professionally with Bellingham Repertory Dance (Bellingham); Chamber Dance Company, Quark Contemporary Dance Theatre, The Stone Dance Collective, and Ballet Bellevue (Seattle); and Unum Dance Company, Scott Wells and Jo Kreiter (San Francisco), and has taught at the University of Washington and Whatcom Community College.
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