2021 Choreographer FELLOW
photo by Canaan Mattson
Alanna Morris (formerly Morris-Van Tassel) is a Brooklyn-born Dancer-Choreographer, Educator, Artist Organizer, and Curator, who danced with TU Dance (St Paul, Minnesota) under artistic directors Toni Pierce-Sands and Uri Sands from 2007-2017. She was 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 they served as the company's Artistic Associate and is a founding Teaching Artist at The School at TU Dance Center.
Alanna is the Artistic Director of I A.M. Arts (formerly Alanna Morris-Van Tassel Productions), founded in 2017 as a fiscally-sponsored project of Springboard for the Arts to sustainably provide opportunities for the development and presentation of new dance works, international collaborations, educational and community-development initiatives. For more on community development programs go here.
In January 2023, Morris premieres Invisible Cities, a collaborative reimagining of Italo Calvino’s metaphysical novel, interweaving cultural perspectives with a dynamic group of dance artists—Ranee and Aparna Ramaswamy (Bharatanatyam), Berit Ahlgren (Gaga), Alanna Morris (Modern), Joseph Tran (Breaking)—and visual artist, Kevork Mourad, who creates Invisible Cities’ interactive, immersive projections in real time. For in-person and livestream tickets go here.
Alanna is a proud graduate of The Juilliard School with academic honors and of Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts (NY). She is an Artistic Advisor to Springboard Danse Montréal and was recently co-curator of the Walker Art Center’s 50th Anniversary of Choreographer’s Evening alongside Judith Howard in November 2022.