Alice Ortona Coles (she/her) is a dancer and choreographer, interested in the intersection between dance, design and performance. She trained at London Contemporary Dance School and the California Institute for the Arts. Most recently, she performed at the Venice Dance Biennale in works by Xavier Le Roy, Marie Chouinard and Marco D’Agostin. Since 2021 she has been choreographing and producing her own work.
Alice’s creative process invites witnessing how works are born in a particular space, out of a particular group of people, defined by each of their personal experiences, backgrounds and cultures. She is deeply invested in design and image, and in her work she wants to build fantastical worlds where she explores what it means to be human through the mythic, magical and surreal. Using dance she wants to cultivate empathy and connection through this one thing we all have in common: a body.
