A summary of my story…

Education:

Dance New Amsterdam (NYC), Movement Research (NYC), Peridance (NYC)

Doug Varone & Dancers intensives

UCLA Bachelors degree in Dance 2005

Pitzer College Dance Major 2001-2003

Limon West Coast festival at Mills College, American Dance Festival 2002 at Duke University

Dance Circle Studios (Singapore), Dance Arts (Singapore), Singapore American School dance program (Singapore), Sumber Cipta Ballet (Indonesia)

I fell in love with dance at a very young age and started with ballet lessons around the age of 3.

Ballet, tap, jazz, modern, lyrical, flamenco lessons + figure skating were a big part of growing up.

I just knew that I wanted a career in the performing arts.

Semi-related… Les Roches School of Hospitality Management, Postgraduate degree in Hospitality Management 2015

Teaching experience:

New York Dance (Sweden), Danscentrum Syd (Sweden), Höörs Danscenter (Sweden), SV Lundabygden Vuxenskolan (Sweden), SV Skåneland Vuxenskolan (Sweden), Lunds Konståkningsklubb (Sweden), IFK Helsingborg (Sweden), Style Dance Studio (Sweden),

Dance on Us (Singapore), Singapore American School (Singapore), United World College Southeast Asia East Campus (Singapore), Center Stage School of the Arts (Singapore)

Les Roches School of Hospitality Management (Switzerland)

Young Dancers in Repertory (NYC), University Settlement at Houston Center (NYC), Unite with In Motion (NYC)

Animo Charter High School (Los Angeles)

Dance Circle Studios (Singapore)

Guest teaching: University of Malta dance department (Malta), Junior Dance Company of Malta (Malta) Utahloy International School (Guangzhou, China), Dans i Lomma (Sweden), Dance studio no. 1 (Sweden), Astoria School of dance (NYC)

Assistant teaching: Singapore American School, Dance Circle Studios (Singapore)

I started assistant teaching around 14 or 15 (I can’t remember anymore) and got my first dance teaching position just as soon as I graduated high school that summer before moving halfway around the world for university in Southern California.

Performance Highlights:

A.H. Dance Company

Gabrielle Lansner & Company

The Movement Collective

Open Floor Dance

Stephanie Liapis

Sasha Soreff Dance Theater

Scott Lyons

Keigwin + Company

Yvonne Rainer

Mandala Danceworks

Kate Hutter

Edinburgh Fringe Festival (Edinburgh, UK), Toronto Fringe Festival (Canada), Capital Fringe Festival (Washington DC), 92nd st Y (NYC), Dance Box (Malaysia), T.H.E. Contact festival (Singapore), White Wave Theater (NYC), Alvin Ailey Citigroup Theater (NYC), Movement Research (NYC), The Flea theater (NYC), Dance New Amsterdam (NYC), Merce Cunningham Studio theater (NYC), Abrons Art Center (NYC), University Settlement (NYC), WAX Works (NYC), River to River festival (NYC), Dance Theater Workshop (NYC), The Puffin Room (NYC), Snapple Theater Studios (NYC), Bowery Poetry Club (NYC), Dance Forum (NYC), Teatro La TEA (NYC), The Getty Center (Los Angeles), California State at Long Beach (Los Angeles), Spectrum Dance LA festival (Los Angeles), Disneyland (Los Angeles), El Camino College (Los Angeles), Royce Hall at UCLA (Los Angeles), Electric Lodge (Los Angeles)

Worked as a dancer, performer, choreographer, and dance educator. Performed all over New York, taught in Brooklyn public schools, community centers, and studios. It was exciting and I cherish those years of performing every month, dancing every day, and living in the best city in the world (in my opinion)

Highlights: Choreography, Grants, Awards, etc…

“Habitat” (2013) - received the Singapore International Foundation grant to tour this work to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

“Chameleon” (2010) - received the Singapore International Foundation grant to tour the work to the Capital Fringe Festival (2010) and again for the Toronto Fringe Festival (2011).

Silo DanceNow Residency in Silo, Pennsylvania (2010)

Extraordinary Abilities O-1 Visa for the United States of America granted (2007-2012)

“High honours with distinction” and “Highly commended” results for Flamenco exam from the Spanish dance institute (1999)

Some notable media mentions:

Washington Post, NY Times, Dance Spirit Magazine, The Luxury Spot, The Displaced Nation, Mooney on Theatre, Time Out New York, DC Theatre Scene

I’ve taught all over Skåne now and have a busy teaching schedule. But after 20+ years teaching all over the world from Singapore to LA to NYC to Switzerland to Malta to Guangzhou and to Southern Sweden. I felt it was time to create my own little studio space where we can dance, stretch, and really move together.

Much Love,

Alaine