ARTISTS · MOVERS · MAKERS · LEADERS

Alanna Morris-Van Tassel

she/her

Join her: 

Forming & Disrupting Patterns: Perspectives in Higher Education

Panel Co-Facilitator
Friday, June 11 • 12:30 - 14:30

Details
Alanna Morris-Van Tassel
Alanna Morris-Van Tassel
Photo Credit : Bobby Rogers

Brooklyn native and Saint Paul-based artist excavating cultural retention and fragmentation within their Caribbean diasporic identity.  Morris-Van Tassel was a performer with TU Dance from 2007-2017, featured in works by Kyle Abraham, Gioconda Barbuto, Camille A. Brown, Ronald K. Brown, Greggory Dolbashian, Katrin Hall, Francesca Harper, Dwight Rhoden, and Uri Sands.  In 2020 she served as the company's Artistic Associate and is a founding Teaching Artist at The School at TU Dance Center since 2011. In 2018 they were named Dance Magazine’s 25 to Watch! and is currently an Artistic Advisor to Springboard Danse Montreal.  Morris-Van Tassel was named Minneapolis City Pages’ Artist of the Year in 2019 and Best Choreographer for their solo, “Yam, Potatoe an Fish!”  Alanna is the Artistic Director of AMVTP, founded in 2017 to produce dance, education and community-building initiatives.  She is a 2015 McKnight Dance Fellow, a graduate of The Juilliard School and LaGuardia High School for Music & Art and Performing Arts.  Morris-Van Tassel's choreography has been commissioned by Minnesota Dance Theatre, Penumbra Theatre, Children's Theatre Co.; and the Dance Department at Carleton College. They are currently developing a collaborative solo performance art project, Black Light_mysteries and manifestations of the creative life force, which explores the nobility of black-ness, the divinity of the feminine energy, and the harnessing of the sensual expression.  The first public presentation is March 12, 2021 virtually through The Cowles Center for Dance in Minneapolis alongside work by Penny Freeh.  The full-evening premiere features performances by 10 celebrated Black dancers, poets, and musicians from the Twin Cities at The Great Northern Festival in January 2022.  This Spring Morris-Van Tassel joins the faculty at Bard College as a Guest Teaching Artist through Gibney Dance. 

www.alannamvt.com

 
Jonathan Alsberry

Jonathan Alsberry

Springboard Forward Master of Ceremonies

Kyle Abraham
Kyle Abraham
Nigel Campbell
Nigel Campbell
Image
Chanel DaSilva
Kate Hilliard
Kate Hilliard
Stephan Laks
Stephan Laks
Shamel Pitts
Shamel Pitts
Bobbi Jene Smith
Bobbi Jene Smith
Charles O. Anderson
Charles O. Anderson
Cebo Carr
Cebo Carr
Pierre Des Marais
Pierre Des Marais
Hanako Hoshimi-Caines
Hanako Hoshimi-Caines
Amy Miller
Amy Miller
Victor Quijada
Victor Quijada
Jermaine Spivey
Jermaine Spivey
Daina Ashbee
Daina Ashbee
Louis-Martin Charest
Louis-Martin Charest
Jasmine Ellis
Jasmine Ellis
Jill Johnson
Jill Johnson
Andrea Miller
Andrea Miller
Or Schraiber
Or Schraiber
Joy-Marie Thompson
Joy-Marie Thompson
Sidra Bell
Sidra Bell
Peter Chu
Peter Chu
Margie Gillis
Margie Gillis
Image
Benjamin Kamino
Alanna Morris-Van Tassel
Alanna Morris-Van Tassel
Zoe Scofield
Zoe Scofield
Alexandra Wells
Alexandra Wells
Le Broke Lab
Le Broke Lab
Elisa Clark
Elisa Clark
David Gonsier
David Gonsier
Jeremy Keeton
Jeremy Keeton
Jae Neal
Jae Neal
Image
Ami Shulman
A. Raheim White
A. Raheim White
Rena Butler
Rena Butler
Image
Cain Coleman
Maxi Hawkeye Canion
Maxi Hawkeye Canion
Catherine Kirk
Catherine Kirk
Issa Perez
Issa Perez
Gilbert T Small II
Gilbert T Small II
Image
Chuck Wilt