Alexis Zaccarello is a Texas-born choreographer and visual artist residing in Brooklyn with Italian, Mexican, and white identities.  Her practice questions form through improvisation--a process born out of desire to deconstruct typically white ways of learning to dance. She has spent her life studying codified forms of dance, and has grown increasingly troubled by the limiting aesthetics and structural hierarchies that continue to pervade these forms, ways of moving, and ways of making dance.

Alexis is currently co-creating a work that surrounds time, care, energetics, support and their relationship to privilege and the audience. She is currently working with Amelia Heintzelman, Rebeca Medina, Claire Gieringer, Ross Daniel, and Rebecca Gual.

Alexis has presented work at venues including Movement Research at the Judson Church, The Center for Performance Research, Chez Bushwick, Dance New Amsterdam, Eden’s Expressway, Mount Holyoke College, Marlboro College, among others. Alexis was an Andrew Mellon Artist-in-Residence at the Center for Performance Research in 2018 and 2015, as well as an Emerging AIR at The Field in 2012.