Photography by Genevieve Parker (2025)
|
Photography by Genevieve Parker (2025)
|
Alyssa Eve Mitchel is an award-winning San Francisco-based choreographer who has been making work in the Bay Area for the past decade. She premiered Endure at Dance Mission Theater in October 2025. This multimedia dance production featured six dancers, six marathon runners, a graphic designer, lighting designer and two cinematographers. In 2023, she partnered with The Contemporary Jewish Museum where she premiered her work Regard. Alyssa then partnered with the North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA) and Carolina Ballet for the Southeastern USA premiere of Regard at the NCMA in 2024. Regard was the winner of the 2024 Inspired Dance Film Festival's "Best Live Performance Capture" award in Sydney, Australia. She was also a selected choreographer at the 2024 Women in Dance Leadership Conference. In partnership with San Francisco’s Exploratorium, she premiered her first outdoor production, Here. Now. (2021). She is an awardee of the San Francisco Artist Grant, 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 won the 2019 Choreography Competition of the International Dance Festival of Silicon Valley. She has been an Artist in Residence at Smuin Contemporary Ballet, Bay Pointe Ballet, Zaccho Dance Theatre, T2 Dance Company, iMPACt Genesis, Berkeley Ballet Theatre, Studio 210 and Marin Dance Theatre. Alyssa 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.