Dance Composition with Guest Artist Ali Kenner Brodsky

Ali Kenner Brodsky makes gesturally rich and emotionally driven dance-theater works and dance films that ask the viewer to indulge in a world of reflection, remembering, and connection. Ali returns to the SSU campus this semester to offer a dance composition workshop, exploring how to make a dance. All are welcome. Ali received a 2022 Massachusetts Cultural Council Choreography Fellowship and was honored to be a part of the 2024 National Dance Presenters’ Form and NEFA'S NE Regional Dance Development Initiative 2021/22. She has been an artist-in-residence at the Croft: Ground for Art (2019), a Catalysts artist at the Dance Complex (2018/19), and an Artist-in-Residence at the Joyce SoHo, NYC (2003/4). She was an Emerging Choreographer in Residence at the Bates Dance Festival 2016 and a recipient of the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Choreography Fellowship 2014. Ali frequently works with the Wilbury Theatre Group and is currently a Visiting Lecturer at Harvard and Brown University. With Lila Hurwitz and Andy Russ, she is co-artistic director of Motion State Arts. Ali makes her home in Dartmouth, MA with her husband, their two children, and five chickens.