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Alyce Finwall's work
blends an unabashed movement language with dramatic
expression and wry humour to create a powerful vehicle
for theatrical dance. Utilizing a combination of high
intensity contemporary and classical forms, her work
investigates the complex dimensions of life and the
human experience. Finwall's uniqe artistic voice comes
from a dedication to experimentation and reinvention,
and her approach delivers an intelligent and evocative
style illuminated with vision, insight and imagination.
Originally from St. Paul, MN. Her work has been
performed throughout the U.S. and in Europe, and has
received numerous grants and awards including five
consecutive grants from the Jerome Foundation, a
Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship grant, project
support from the 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Center in
NYC, the Walker Art Center, the Minneapolis Dance
Alliance. Weisman Art Museum and Zellerbach Family
Foundation. Alyce has also worked extensively for film,
music videos and fashion as both a dancer and
choreographer.
Alyce began her career in movement studying dance at an
early age. She discovered her love of
modern/contemporary movement and theatricality while
attending Hamline University where she studied art and
communications theory, and performed with the
university's theatre department. She has performed with
many influential independent choreographers and
companies in Minneapolis, Washington DC and New York
City, most notably as a principal dancer and guest
choreographer with the avant garde ballet company Ballet
of the Dolls, where she starred in over 20 original
ballets and co-choreographed two evening length works
with artistic director Myron Johnson.
Her training includes scholarships from the Cunningham
School in New York, and with the Cullberg Ballet in
Stockholm, Sweden by invitation from the artistic
director Lena Wennergren-Juras. Alyce began
choreographing in 1994, developing a uniquely creative
and theatrical style, noted for its "sexiness and
intelligence" by the New York Times, and for having a
"fierce fluidity in performance and a brooding
surrealism in the choreography" by the Minneapolis Star
Tribune.
www.alycefinwall.com
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