sive support from the public, funders, and the press.
As a choreographer independent of his work with ‘The
Foundry, Alex Ketley has
out the United States and Europe. For this work he has
received acknowledgement from the Hubbard Street
National Choreographic Competition (2001), the Inter-
national Choreographic Competition of the Festival des
Arts de Saint-Saveaur (2004), the National Choo
Goh Award (2005), the inaugural Princess Grace Aw
for Choreography (2003), the BNC National Choreo-
graphic Competition (2008), three CHIME Fellowships
2007, 2008, and 2012), four Maggie Allesee National
Center for Choreography Residencies (2007, 2009, 2014,
and 2085), the Gerbode-Hewlett Choreographer Com-
missioning Award (2009), and the National Eben Det
est Award (2012). His pieces and collaborations have also
been awarded Isadora Duncan Awards in the categories
ing Achievement by an Ensemble (2009),
Choreography (zon), and
Company (ou & 20%
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ferent was presented on national television through ai
invitation from the show So You Think You Can Dance.
With The Foundry in 2012, he began a new project enti-
tled No Hero which explored what dance means and how
it is experienced by people throughout more rural parts.
of the American West. he video projection Alex created
for No Hero was nominated for a 2012 Isadora Duncan
Award for Outstanding Achievement in Visual Design.
In 2013, he began
appointment as a Lecturer at Stan-
's Department of Theater and Perfor-
mance Studies (TAPS). In that same year he was also
awarded the first Princess Grace Foundation Chore-
ography Mentorship Go-Commission Award (CMCC)
a MANCC Media Fellowship, and a Kenneth Rainin
Foundation New and Experimental Works Grant which
he used to work on a collaborative project with Miguel
Gutierrez exploring rural communities throughout the
Deep South (Vo Hero = Part 3). Also in 2014, he created
and premiered his dance film The Gift (of Impermanence)
which has continued to screen at film festivals interna~
ally, as well as winning the 2015 Artistry Award from.
the Superfest International Disability Filin Festival.
Along with his direction of The Foundry, his various in-
dependent projects, and his appointment at Stanford, he
helped Summer Lee Rhatigan create The San Francisco
Conservatory of Dance in 2004, an organization where