Alex Zaccarello is a gender queer dance maker whose practice questions form, proximity, and perception through improvisation--a process born out of desire to deconstruct typically white, gendered ways of learning to dance.  They have spent their life studying codified forms of dance, and have grown curious about the limiting aesthetics and values that continue to pervade these moving and perceiving dance practices.  

Alex is deeply committed to the patient and consistent process of embodiment required to make and investigate dances.  They are currently co-creating a process for improvising that surrounds attention, abstraction, and presence. They are grateful to receive rehearsal space support from The Brick House. 

Alex has presented work at venues including Movement Research (NY), The Center for Performance Research (NY), Chez Bushwick (NY), Dance New Amsterdam (NY), Eden’s Expressway (NY), Mount Holyoke College (MA), Marlboro College (VT), among others. Alex was an Andrew Mellon Artist-in-Residence at the Center for Performance Research in 2018 and 2015, as well as an Emerging AIR at The Field (NY) in 2012.

Alex was shaped by Texan, Italian, and Mexican cultures and received formative dance training from Interlochen Arts Academy (Michigan) and The Boston Conservatory.  Alex was further inspired by their teaches and fellow dancers and makers over their 12 years in Brooklyn.

Alex is also a Movement and Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist; they co-own The Well Seed: A Center For Movement and Healing Arts in Florence, MA.

Parallel to movement and healing practices, Alex is growing family and tending to land that historically belonged to the Pocomtuc, Nonotuk, Nipmuc, and Abenaki people.