Alyce Finwall

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

ABOUT ALYCE FINWALL

Currently is director/owner at Moving Arts Academy of Dance, on faculty at Santa Rosa Junior College dance and theater departments, director of Alyce Finwall Dance Theater, and is an American Ballet Theatre certified teacher. She founded Moving Arts in 2016 which is now one of the top 10% of dance schools in the Bay Area. She started AFDT in and has had the great pleasure of collaborating with many diverse artists on works for both stage and film. Alyce’s wide-ranging dance career began after a brief hiatus from dance to study art and communications theory at Hamline University. She has worked with the Minneapolis based avant-garde ballet company, Ballet of the Dolls, where she performed in over 20 original ballets in her six years with the company and was its first-ever guest choreographer. She has also danced for Rincones & Company in Washington, DC, performing at the Kennedy Center and regional theaters while also teaching DC area school children creative movement, and in New York City for independent choreographers as well as producing and dancing in her own work. She has studied with the Cullberg Ballet in Sweden (under invitation from artistic director Lena Wennergren-Juras), the Cunningham Dance Company and with many teachers of ballet and contemporary techniques in NYC, Minneapolis, DC and San Francisco. Her work has been presented at such venues as P.S. 122, The Joyce SoHo, Dance Theater Workshop (New York Live Arts), Dixon Place, 92nd Street Y on 42nd Street, Cunningham Theater, White Wave Theater, The Cowell Theater, The SouthernTheater, The Garage Theater and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Alyce has also choreographed many musical theater productions. She has taught and choreographed for college and pre-professional programs such as the San Francisco Conservatory of Dance, Radford University, Cedar Crest College and Mills College. She has an MFA in choreography from Mills College (Liatis Foundation Award), and is the proud mother of two daughters.