Photography by Genevieve Parker (2025)
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Photography by Genevieve Parker (2025)
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Alyssa Eve Mitchel is an award-winning San Francisco based choreographer. She partnered with the North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA) and Carolina Ballet for the Southeastern USA premiere of Regard (2023) at the NCMA in November 2024. Mitchel's work Regard (2023), in partnership with The Contemporary Jewish Museum won the 2024 Inspired Dance Film Festival's "Best Live Performance Capture" award in Sydney, Australia. In partnership with San Francisco’s Exploratorium, she received an arts grant for the premiere of her outdoor production, Here. Now. (2021). She was the winner of the 2019 Choreography Competition of the International Dance Festival of Silicon Valley for her work, Close, Far and Somewhere in Between (2016) and has received several grant awards including the SFAC San Francisco Artist Grant, the Yerba Buena Community Benefit District Mini Grant, Joe Goode Performance Group's COVID Relief Space Grant, Dancers’ Group Lighting Artists in Dance Grant and the Classical Girl Giving Grant. She has been an Artist in Residence at Zaccho Dance Theatre, Mannakin Dance Theatre/iMPACt Center, Berkeley Ballet Theatre and Studio 210/Deborah Slater Dance Theater. Mitchel has been granted residencies and commissions at ODC Pilot 70 & 71, Bay Pointe Ballet, Moving Arts, LEVYdance, SAFEhouse Arts and Marin Dance Theatre. She recently premiered her newest production, Endure, at Dance Mission Theater in October 2025 which was a multimedia dance work that integrated six dancers, the recorded interviews of six marathon runners and visual art and animations by Zach Litoff. She also co-choreographed SOL The Musical premiering at the Mira Theatre Guild in Vallejo in October 2025. Mitchel holds a Bachelor of Arts in Education and a minor in mathematics from the Dominican University of California and is a passionate Bay Area math tutor. She has tutored and mentored hundreds of students over the past decade.