Alexander Davis

Performer/Choreographer/Fiber Artist

Bio

Alexander Davis is a homosexual, maker, and performer. Alex has worked, performed and presented with organizations across Boston including Ryan Landry's Gold Dust Orphans, Boston Lyric Opera, Boston Children's Chorus, World Music/CRASHarts and Improv Asylum/Laugh Boston. Alex is a former company member of Boston's Urbanity Dance, where he also was as a frequent choreographer, teaching artist, administrator, and the director of the their Summer Choreographer Intensive Program. As a choreographer and fiber artist Alex has received grant and residency support from The Studios at Mass MoCA, The Boston Foundation, Urbanity Dance, and The Theatre Offensive. As a dancer Alex has performed works by Doug Varone, Carl Flink, Andy Noble, Monica Bill Barnes, Larry Keigwin, Rebecca Stenn, Lorraine Chapman, and is a regular guest artist with Peter DiMuro/Public Displays of Motion. In 2017, Alex and primary collaborator Joy Davis founded The Davis Sisters, a duet company that does whatever they need it to do. Together they have received residency support and presentations from The Yard, Bates Dance Festival, Goodyear Arts, Boston Center for the Arts, and more. Alex assisted choreographer Monica Bill Barnes on Writer/Director Greta Gerwig's 2019 adaptation of Louis May Alcott's Little Women, in which he was also a Principle Dancer. Additionally Alex is a sexual consent educator, a mildly successful grant writer, and an okay comedian. Alex is graduate of Keene State College where he received a BA in English: Writing, and a BA in Theatre and Dance: Choreography and Performance. In 2023 Alex received his Master of Fine Arts in Dance: Choreography and Performance from Smith College in Northampton Massachusetts.

Instagram: @AlexanderDavisDance

Twitter: @AlexDavisDance

performances

Past Performances:

April 10th, 17th May 1st, and 8th, 2019 - The Museum of Fine Arts Boston Presents The Davis Sisters in Dance in the Galleries (Performer & Co-Creator)

May 10th - The Museum of Fine Arts Boston Presents The Davis Sisters in Late Nite (Performer & Co-Creator)

May 17th - 18th Goodyear Arts Presents Avant Goodyear Dance: The Davis Sisters (Performer & Co-Creator)

May 31st and June 1st - Urbanity Dance Presents Fragment (Performer)

May 3rd and May 5th - The Dance Complex Presents Dance Now Boston(Performer)

May 31st, June 1st and 2nd - Across the Ages Dance Project Presents Lineage (Co-Choreographer)

June 13th - 15th: Gibney Presents POP PERFORMANCE: PETER DIMURO/PUBLIC DISPLAYS OF MOTION

June 19th - Fountain Street Gallery Presents Alexander Davis Dance in Collaboration with Jeremy Stewart

March 28th, 2019: Keene State College and The Redfern Arts Center present Alexander Davis Dance

March 8th-9th 2019, 7:30 p.m. | March 10th, 2:30 p.m: Urbanity Dance Presents Urbanity NeXt at Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge (Performer & Choreographer)

February 22nd - 23rd Endicott College School of Visual and Performing Arts Presents Molière in the Middle: A Showcase of Comedy Then and Now (Director)

December 7th - 8th, 2018: Endicott College School of Visual and Performing Arts Presents Guest Artist Concert (Choreographer)

November 16th, 2018: The Dance Complex Presents: The Davis Sisters Present: Ethel! at The Dance Complex, Cambridge MA (Performer & Co-Creator)

November 2nd - 3rd: Boston Moving Arts Company Presents: Wild Type at The Boston Center for the Arts

October 29th - 30th, 2019: World Music/CRASH Arts presents Places Please! at the Institute of Contemporary Art (Guest Performer)

October 12th, 2018: The Dance Complex Presents: The Davis Sisters Present: Ethel! at The Dance Complex, Cambridge MA (Performer & Co-Creator)

September 21st, 2018: The Dance Complex Presents: The Davis Sisters Present: Ethel! at The Dance Complex, Cambridge MA (Performer & Co-Creator)

September 6th, 2018: Dance Now NYC at Joe's Pub, New York City (Performer & Co-Creator)

September 1st, 2018: The Yard Presents The Davis Sisters (Performer & Co-Creator)

August 11th, 2018, 2:00pm: Boston Contemporary Dance Festival presents Alexander Davis Dance (Performer & Choreographer)

July 25th, 2018: Jacob's Pillow Presents Peter DiMuro/Public Displays of Motion in a Site Specific Performance (Performer)

June 24th, 2018: The Festival of Us, We and Them Presents Beyond Boundaries, at The Dance Complex, Cambridge MA (Performer)

June 22nd - 23rd, 2018: Dancing Queerly at The Dance Complex, Cambridge MA (Performer & Choreographer)

June 8th - 10th, 2018: Dance Now | Boston at The Dance Complex, Cambridge MA (Performer & Choreographer)

June 1st - June 2nd, 2018: Urbanity Dance Presents F=MA (Performer)

May 3rd, 2018: Improv Asylum Presents Ethel (Performer & Co-Creator)

April 26th - May 13th, 2018: Company One Theatre/American Repertory Theater Present Wig Out! (Choreographer) 

April 27th - May 19th, 2018: Zeitgeist Stage Company Presents Love! Valour! Compassion!(Choreographer)

April 19th - April 28th, 2018: The Longwood Players Present Next to Normal (Choreographer)

March 23rd - 31st, 2018: Urbanity Dance Presents Urbanity Next (Performer)

March 3rd, 2018: Museum of Fine Arts Presents Urbanity Dance at MFA Late Nites(Performer)

December 1st, 2017: Medicine Wheel Productions Presents Peter DiMuro/Public Displays of Motion - Day Without Art 2017 at the Boston Center for the Arts (Performer)

December 7th - 9th, 2017: Boston Arts Academy Presents Blood at the Root (Movement Direction)

November 19th, 2017: The School of Contemporary Dance and Thought Presents WIP VI (Performer/Choreographer)

November 10th - 11th, 2017: Live Arts Boston Dance Showcase (Performer/Choreographer) 

November 3rd - 4th, 2017: Illuminus Festival Presents Peter DiMuro/Public Displays of Motion (Performer)

October 13th - 15th, 2017: The Dance Complex Presents: Tiny and Short: A Drop in the Bucket (Performer & Choreographer)

October 18th - 29th: The Dance Complex Presents: Route 95 Dances (Performer &Choreographer)

October 6th, 2017: Lions Jaw Festival Presents joyproject (Performer)

July 16th, 2017: American Dance Festival Faculty Concert Presents joyproject (Performer)

September 22nd - 23rd, 2017: World Music/CrashARTS Presents: DANCE UP at The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA (Performer & Choreographer)

June 9th - 10th, 2017: Boston Center for the Arts Choreographer Residency Showcase Volatile Structures with Vimoksha/Chavi Bansal (Performer)

June 2nd - 3rd, 2017: Urbanity Dance Presents Observing: Annual Spring Revue (Performer)

May 7th, 2017: From the Horse's Mouth (Performer)

April 27th, 2017: Jeremy Stewart EMPAC Residency (Performer)

May 6th, 2017: Art of Movement (Performer)

May 5th - 13th, 2017: The Longwood Players Present Little Women (Choreographer)

April 28th and 30th, 2017: Lorraine Chapman The Company in Done Waiting (Performer)

March 23rd - 24th, 2017: Urbanity Dance Presents Urbanity NeXt (Choreographer & Performer)

March 4th, 2017: OnStage Residency Showcase (Choreographer& Performer)

December 2017: Ryan Landry and the Gold Dust Orphans Present Murder on the Polar Express (Performer)

December 7th - December 11th, 2016: Curry College Theatre Presents American Idiot(Choreographer)

November 18th, 2016: Urbanity Dance Presents Call of Courage (Performer)

November 19th, 2016: Boston Children's Chorus Presents We Are... (Movement Director)

October 12th, 2016 - November 9th, 2016: Laugh Boston Presents Trump Takes on... Boston (Choreographer)

September 23rd, 25th, 30th, October 2nd, 2016: Boston Lyric Opera Presents Carmen (Performer)

September 28th, 2016: Hope Coming On (Choreographer)

October 1st, 2016: Stefanos Tsivopoulos' One too Many (Performer)

August 12th, 2016: The Boston Contemporary Dance Festival (Choreographer)

June 3rd, 2016 - June 4th, 2016: Urbanity Dance Presents Residual (Performer & Choreographer)

May 23rd, 2016: Selections from Ryan Landry's Throughly Muslim Millie at The Eliot Norton Awards (Performer)

April 21, 2016 - May 22, 2016: Ryan Landry and the Gold Dust Orphans Present Legally Blind (Performer)

April 16, 2016 - April 19, 2016: Curry College Theatre Presents The Laramie Project (Choreographer)

April 9th, 2016: Emmanuel Music/Urbanity Dance Present BACH REINVENTED (Performer)

Contact

For booking, press or general inquiry, please feel free to e-mail Alexander Davis directly @ ALEXANDER.WILLIAM.DAVIS@GMAIL.COM.