I Am You, Fully and Truly.

Alex Ketley

I Am You, Fully and Truly

Choreographer

Alex Ketley

PERFORMERS

Daniel Costa, Nahshon Marden, Robbi A. Moore, Sean Rosado

MUSIC

Collage - Tar@JMB and Emily Adams

Lighting Design

Meg Fox

Stage Manager and Technical Director

Becca Blackwell

Sound

Tess Bañales

Alex Ketley is a choreographer, filmmaker, educator, and the director of The Foundry. In his 20+ years making work, he has developed pieces from many different creative entry points. Examples of these are: Syntax, an hour long duet that used the mechanics of language as an organizing mechanism; Lost Line researched how the application of environment affects the generation of movement; Please Love Me jettisoned performing in a theater and researched how people connect and experience artwork; the No Hero Trilogy was a multi-year project that explored what dance and performance means to people living throughout rural America, and Distal Imprint is a film he made with artist and death row inmate Bill Clark. He has been commissioned extensively throughout the United States and has received acknowledgement from the Hubbard Street National Choreographic Competition, the Choo-San Goh Award, the Princess Grace Award for Choreography, four MANCC Residencies, the Eben Demarest Award, the National Choreographic Initiative Residency, a Kenneth Rainin Foundation New and Experimental Works Grant, a Phyllis C Wattis Foundation Grant, the Artistry Award from the Superfest International Disability Film Festival, and his work was featured on the show So You Think You Can Dance. His pieces and collaborations have also been awarded Isadora Duncan Awards for outstanding achievement in the categories of Choreography, Company, & Ensemble. He is an Advanced Lecturer at Stanford University’s Theater and Performance Studies Department, and in 2020 he became a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, one of the most prestigious honors in the United States recognizing individuals "who have demonstrated exceptional creative ability in the arts.”

PROGRAMME NOTES

It has been a tremendous pleasure to have this opportunity and time to work with this group of excellent men. Each of them has brought their unique and individual self to this dance, and in turn that has each day directly informed how this work was created. The work is a reflection of many ideas for me, one of which is the spectacular multitudes of what it can mean to be male in contemporary culture and performance.