Join us as the Department of Dance honors special guest artist and dance alum Alexandra Beller as she is presented with the 2024 Professional Achievement in Dance Award from the SMTD Alumni Board.

10–11am - Presentation / Lecture -
Dance Performance Studio Theatre (Studio 1, Room 1040)

11am–12pm - Lunch Reception with Informal Talk -
Perry K. Granoff Studio (Studio 4, Room 1060)


ABOUT THE GUEST ARTIST

ALEXANDRA BELLER (BFA ’94, dance) has been the artistic director of Alexandra Beller/Dances since 2002. She was a Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company member (1995–2001). Beller has created over 50 original dance theatre works and has presented at theatres and universities throughout the United States and with companies in Korea, Hong Kong, Oslo, and Cyprus.

Beller currently choreographs predominantly for theatre. Her Off-Broadway credits include Sense and Sensibility (Sheen Center, the Gym at Judson; received the Helen Hayes Award, Lucille Lortel Award nomination, and IRNE Best Choreography award), The Mad Ones (59E59 Theaters), Bedlam’s Peter Pan (the Duke on 42nd Street), and How to Transcend a Happy Marriage (Lincoln Center Theater). Her regional credits include Two Gentlemen of Verona (Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival), As You Like It (Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival and Folger Shakespeare Library), Taylor Mac’s The Young Ladies of…, and Chang(e) (HERE Arts Center). Beller’s current projects include choreographing Antonio’s Song (Contemporary American Theater Festival and Milwaukee Rep) and Fandango for Butterflies (and Coyotes) (La MaMa and touring) and directing/choreographing Macbeth (Theatre Row). She wrote and directed an adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream for 92NY.

Beller was on faculty at Princeton University, 2015–22, and she teaches at the Laban Institute of Movement Studies, HB Studio, and the University of Wisconsin–Madison graduate program. In addition to a BFA in dance, she has an MFA in choreography and is a CMA (Certified Movement Analyst).