Alethea Pace is a Bronx-based multidisciplinary choreographer and performer committed to creating work in and with her community that is rooted in social justice, born out of resilience and made in spite of the obstacles facing artists (and people) of color. She is a 2023-2035 Civic Practice Partnership Artist in Residence at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and was a recipient of the 2021 Dance Magazine Harkness Promise Award. Her most recent work, Here goes the neighborhood.., was presented at Works and Process at the Guggenheim and premiered at BAAD! with support from the Bronx Council on the Arts, the BAAD! Muse Residency, Works and Process Launchpad Residency and Angela’s Pulse. Her work has also been presented by the Bronx Museum, Pregones Theater, Dancing While Black, Andrew Freedman Home, Danspace Project, New York Live Arts, Performance Mix, Wassaic Project and the 92Y.
As a dancer, Alethea has performed with a variety of choreographers and was a member of Arthur Aviles Typical Theatre for eight years. She has been a collaborator in numerous multimedia community-centered projects including with Angela’s Pulse, Dancing in the Streets and the Laundromat Project. She has also worked as an associate producer on the award-winning documentary Down A Dark Stairwell directed by Ursula Liang.
Alethea trained at Mind-Builders Creative Arts Center in the Bronx and has a BA in Urban Design from NYU and an MFA in Digital and Interdisciplinary Arts from the City College of New York.
