Alethea Pace is a Bronx-based multidisciplinary movement artist committed to creating work in and with her community that is rooted in social justice. She is a 2023-2025 Civic Practice Partnership Artist in Residence at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and a 2024 MAP Fund grantee. A recipient of the 2021 Dance Magazine Harkness Promise Award, her work has been presented by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, BAAD!, Works and Process at the Guggenheim, Pregones Theater, Dancing While Black, Danspace Project, New York Live Arts, and the 92Y, to name a few. She has received residency support from Loghaven Residency, TN, Keshet Arts, NM, and Modern Accord Depot, NY.
As a dancer, Alethea has performed with a variety of choreographers and was a member of Arthur Aviles Typical Theatre from 2001-2008. She has been a collaborator in numerous multimedia community-centered projects including with Angela’s Pulse, Dancing in the Streets, and the Laundromat Project. In 2019 she 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. She is an adjunct professor at Lehman College.
