Thursday, August 11, 2022 from 6:30-7:30 PM
Join Alexis Borth on Thursday, August 11 in an exploratory movement session as a part of our monthly series Making Moves.
Borth, who will present an evening-length work with Making Moves on September 8th, will utilize elements from her creative process to inform this community experience. The Improv Jam begins at 6:30pm, and participants are encouraged to wear comfortable clothing and to bring water. This experience is appropriate for dancers and movers of all abilities and backgrounds and is open to all.
Masks required indoors. For more information about our COVID-19 Protocol, visit charlottestreet.org/plan-your-visit.
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ABOUT ALEXIS BORTH
Alexis Borth is a professional dancer, choreographer, and teacher. She graduated magna cum laude with a BFA in Dance Performance & Choreography from the Conservatory of Music & Dance at UMKC, which propelled her into performances with Kansas City Ballet, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and Quixotic. Upon graduation she moved to New York City, freelancing for several years with notable artists, companies, and projects. Some of her highlighted credits include performing with Complexions Contemporary Ballet, American Ballet Theatre at The Metropolitan Opera House and walking the runway and dancing for New York Fashion Week. Her career eventually led her to San Francisco to perform with Dance Theatre of San Francisco, and other companies around the Bay area. Her choreography has premiered at the San Francisco Art Institute, Yerba Buena Arts Center for Berkeley Ballet Theater, and various independent projects and music videos. She is a certified GYROTONIC, GYROKINESIS, and yoga instructor and is currently performing, choreographing, and teaching in Kansas City and around the country. She has been on faculty for LINES Ballet’s BFA & Training Programs, taught dance classes for LINES Dance Center in San Francisco as well as UMKC’s Conservatory of Music & Dance and many other studios nationwide. As she has recently relocated back to the Midwest, Alexis is excited and grateful to use her experience to reconnect, create new productions locally and nationally, and help further a growing KC arts community.
ABOUT MAKING MOVES
Making Moves is a monthly dance performance series located in Kansas City, MO, curated and produced by Kyle Mullins. Making Moves is dedicated to the creation and development of new works by local and regional dance makers and to expose Kansas City audiences to a wider array of contemporary dance making.
Making Moves provides area choreographers, dancers, and audiences the opportunity to share in the process of new and experimental work in both traditional and non-traditional performance venues. Experimentation, risk-taking, collaboration, and multi-disciplinary approaches are encouraged.
Supported by Charlotte Street Foundation, fiscal sponsorship by Fractured Atlas. Click here to donate.
