ABOUT
ALEXANDRA BRADSHAW-YERBY is a performer, choreographer, dance scholar, and Associate Instructional Professor of Dance at Texas A&M University. A recipient of the 2020 Utah Higher Education Dance Educator of the Year Award, she previously served as Associate Professor of Dance and Director of the Dance Program at Southern Utah University. She has also taught at institutions including the Ririe-Woodbury Dance Foundation; the University of Utah; the University of Wyoming, Laramie; the University of Washington, Seattle; The Royal Ballet School/Tumbuka Dance Company in Harare, Zimbabwe; the University of Mississippi, Hattiesburg; and, the University of Georgia, Athens, among many others.
As a performer, Alexandra danced with Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company, touring nationally and internationally in works by Jonah Bokaer, Charlotte Boye-Christensen, Ann Carlson, Daniel Charon, Joanna Kotze, Bill T. Jones, Alwin Nikolais, Doug Varone, Netta Yerushalmy, and others. She remains active as a performer and has worked as a freelance dance artist in Salt Lake City, San Francisco, New York City, and Israel.
Alexandra's recent choreographic projects include Starboard, a performance collaboration with dance artist Tara McArthur and composer Jon Yerby; Open & True, an evening-length dance work created in collaboration with Nick Blaylock and American desert folk band 3hattrio; Chorus of One, a performance installation collaboration with Seattle-based glass artist Anna Mlasowsky and dance artist Alethea Alexander (awarded the Bellevue Art Museum's Excellence Award); 7 & 1, an evening length duo concert with guitarist Jon Yerby; and, Brace, a duet created and performed with NYC-based dance artist Bradley Beakes.
Her scholarship, published in AMPS: Architecture, Media, Politics, and Society and the Journal of Dance Education, examines interdisciplinary approaches to collegiate art-making, as well as the neurophysiological dimensions of dance education.
Alexandra holds an M. F. A. in Dance from the University of Washington as well as a B. F. A. in Dance and a B. A. in English from the University of California, Irvine. She has completed additional study at the University of Washington Medical School (Anatomy & Kinesiology, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine); Cambridge University in the U.K. (British Literature); and, The Ailey School (Dance) in New York City.
As a performer, Alexandra danced with Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company, touring nationally and internationally in works by Jonah Bokaer, Charlotte Boye-Christensen, Ann Carlson, Daniel Charon, Joanna Kotze, Bill T. Jones, Alwin Nikolais, Doug Varone, Netta Yerushalmy, and others. She remains active as a performer and has worked as a freelance dance artist in Salt Lake City, San Francisco, New York City, and Israel.
Alexandra's recent choreographic projects include Starboard, a performance collaboration with dance artist Tara McArthur and composer Jon Yerby; Open & True, an evening-length dance work created in collaboration with Nick Blaylock and American desert folk band 3hattrio; Chorus of One, a performance installation collaboration with Seattle-based glass artist Anna Mlasowsky and dance artist Alethea Alexander (awarded the Bellevue Art Museum's Excellence Award); 7 & 1, an evening length duo concert with guitarist Jon Yerby; and, Brace, a duet created and performed with NYC-based dance artist Bradley Beakes.
Her scholarship, published in AMPS: Architecture, Media, Politics, and Society and the Journal of Dance Education, examines interdisciplinary approaches to collegiate art-making, as well as the neurophysiological dimensions of dance education.
Alexandra holds an M. F. A. in Dance from the University of Washington as well as a B. F. A. in Dance and a B. A. in English from the University of California, Irvine. She has completed additional study at the University of Washington Medical School (Anatomy & Kinesiology, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine); Cambridge University in the U.K. (British Literature); and, The Ailey School (Dance) in New York City.
photo by Christopher Peddecord
