Diane Frank
Lecturer, Theater and Performing Studies
Roble Gym & Studios Building , Room 111
375 Santa Teresa St.
dfrank1@stanford.edu
Aleta Hayes
ahayes1@stanford.edu
Alex Ketley
BioAlex Ketley is an independent choreographer and the director of The Foundry. Formally a classical dancer with the San Francisco Ballet (1994-1998), he performed a wide range of classical and contemporary repertory in San Francisco and on tour throughout the world. In 1998 he left the San Francisco Ballet to co-found The Foundry in order to explore his deepening interests in choreography, improvisation, mixed media work, and collaborative process. With The Foundry he has been an artist in residence at many leading art institutions including Headlands Center for the Arts (2001 and 2007), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (2002), The Yard (2003), the Santa Fe Art Institute (2004 and 2006), the Taipei Artist Village (2005), ODC Theater (2006), the Ucross Foundation (2007), and the Vermont Performance Lab (2014). The Foundry has produced fifteen full evening length works that have received extensive support from the public, funders, and the press, as well as a number of single-channel video pieces that have screened at international video festivals.
As a choreographer independent of his work with The Foundry, Alex Ketley has been commissioned to create original pieces for companies and universities throughout the United States and Europe. For this work he has received acknowledgement from the Hubbard Street National Choreographic Competition (2001), the International Choreographic Competition of the Festival des Arts de Saint-Saveaur (2004), the National Choo-San Goh Award (2005), the inaugural Princess Grace Award for Choreography (2005), the BNC National Choreographic Competition (2008), three CHIME Fellowships (2007, 2008, and 2012), three Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography Residencies (2007,2009 and 2015), the Gerbode-Hewlett Choreographer Commissioning Award (2009), and the National Eben Demarest Award (2012). His pieces and collaborations have also been awarded Isadora Duncan Awards in the categories of Outstanding Achievement by an Ensemble (2009), Outstanding Achievement in Choreography (2011), and Outstanding Achievement by a Company (2011 & 2012).
For 2011, in addition to commissions from Ballet Leipzig and the Juilliard School, his AXIS Dance Company work "To Color Me Different" was presented on national television through an invitation from the show So You Think You Can Dance. With The Foundry in 2012, he was deeply engaged in a new project entitled "No Hero" which explored what dance means and how it is experienced by people throughout more rural parts of the American West. The video projection Alex created for No Hero was nominated for a 2012 Isadora Duncan Award for Outstanding Achievement in Visual Design.
In early 2013, he was a visiting professor and artist at Florida State University and in the fall began an appointment as a Lecturer at Stanford University's Department of Theater and Performance Studies (TAPS), Division of Dance. He was also awarded the first Princess Grace Foundation Choreography Mentorship Co-Commission Award (CMCC) a MANCC Media Fellowship, and a Kenneth Rainin Foundation New and Experimental Works Grant which he is using to work on a collaborative project with Miguel Guiterrez in 2014/15 exploring rural communities throughout the rural South. Also in 2014 he created and premiered the dance film "The Gift (of Impermanence)" which has continued to screen at film festivals internationally and won the 2015 Artistry Award from the Superfest International Disability Film Festival.
Along with his direction of The Foundry, his various independent projects, and his teaching at Stanford, Alex has choreographed at many of the countries leading dance programs including Julliard, NYU Tisch, Cal State Long Beach, Florida State University, and is Resident Choreographer of The San Francisco Conservatory of Dance.
aketley@stanford.edu
Anton Pankevitch
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Ronnie Reddick
Instructor, Theater and Performing Studies
Theater and Performing Studies