Studio Stories: CANDY BOX Dance Festival special with Alexandra Bodnarchuk - Season 6, Episode 84

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 9x22 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.