Alexandra is a Carpatho-Rusyn American choreographer based in Minneapolis, MN. She creates original works ranging from solos to evening length group works for the stage and screen. She is a 2021 Ann & Weston Hicks Choreography Fellow at Jacob’s Pillow and a 2020 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow Finalist. Her most recent work, dance film Heritage Sites, premiered in 2020 and will be screened at the 48th annual Athens International Film and Video Festival (OH), Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema (CO), DanceBARN Screendance Festival (MN), and Astoria Film Festival (NY). It is also an Official Selection of the BLOW-UP International Arthouse Filmfest Chicago (IL).
Since relocating to Minneapolis she has been commissioned by Threads Dance Project and the Performing Institute of Minnesota. She has also presented work at The Cowles Center for Dance & the Performing Arts, Candy Box Dance Festival/Arena Dances, Zenon Dance Zone, Future Interstates, and 9×22 dance lab at the Bryant Lake Bowl. She has worked with Jeffrey Peterson Dance, Ethnic Dance Theatre, April Sellers Dance Collective, Helen Hatch/Hatch Dance & Berit Ahlgren, and Paulina Olowska & Jessie Gold. She has been moving with Black Label Movement under the direction of Carl Flink since 2017.
DESCRIPTION OF WORK:
Rock, Paper, Scissors (Working Title) is a duet that will premiere at the Southern Theater in March 2023. This work is about researching the ways in which I have been taught to be silent, and the ways in which I am learning to be loud. Additional prompts include: the generational passing down of customs, practices, and rules of our bodies; practicing femininity, mouthy, verticality, and prickly.
Choreographer: Alexandra Bodnarchuk
Dancers: Lisa ‘MonaLisa’ Berman, Sarah McCullough
Sound Designer/Artistic Associate: Brandon Musser
IF YOU WERE A TYPE OF CANDY, WHAT TYPE OF CANDY WOULD YOU BE AND WHY?
Jawbreakers. They’re multilayered, multi flavored, they last, they reveal themselves on their own time. You gotta deal with them. A first inclination was a Ferraro Rocher or Baci chocolate. But they disappear too quickly to be emblematic of my personality.
Happy Hour Artist Performances | Daily, 5:30 – 6:30pm
- Monday, May 2 – Alys Ayumi Ogura
- Tuesday, May 3 – Margaret Ogas
- Wednesday, May 4 – Ayumi Shafer
- Thursday, May 5 – Alexandra Bodnarchuk
- Friday, May 6 – Emily Michaels King
Dancers: Lisa ‘MonaLisa’ Berman, Sarah McCullough
Photo by Nic LaFrance
Dancers: Lisa ‘MonaLisa’ Berman, Sarah McCullough
Photo by Nic LaFrance
Dancers: Lisa ‘MonaLisa’ Berman, Sarah McCullough
Photo by Nic LaFrance