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Alexander Davis

City of Boston 2019 Artist Fellow

Alexander Davis is a Boston based performer, choreographer, and homosexual interested in subverting theatrical expectations and heightening the pedestrian. Alex is a graduate of Keene State College where he received a B.A. in English: Writing, and a B.A. 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, Global Arts Live and Improv Asylum/Laugh Boston. Alex was a company member with Urbanity Dance for the past five years, and now is the acting director of their Summer Choreographer Intensive Program and curator of the UrbanityX performance series. As a choreographer and fiber artist Alex has received grant and residency support from The Studios at Mass MoCA, The Boston Foundation, The Umbrella Center for the Arts, Urbanity Dance, and The Theatre Offensive. Alex and primary collaborator Joy Davis (The Davis Sisters) received a 2018 Bessie Schonberg [Boston] Choreographic Residency from The Yard, the inaugural Creative Residency at The Museum of Fine Arts Boston, an inaugural Creative Residency from Studio@550 in 2019, and a Run of the Mills at The Boston Center for the Arts, Chelsea Theatre Works, and UrbanityX. Most recently, Alex assisted 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.

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