Ali Kenner Brodsky

2019 & 2020 Artist award recipient

Note: Ms. Kenner Brodsky received this award in both years because of delays related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

artist’s bio

Ali Kenner Brodsky, artistic director of ali kenner brodsky & co., makes gesturally rich and emotionally driven dance-theater works. She was a 2019 artist-in-residence at the Croft: Ground for Art, a 2018-19 Catalysts artist at the Dance Complex, 2016 Emerging Choreographer in Residence at Bates Dance Festival and 2014 recipient of the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Choreography Fellowship. In 2003–04 she was an artist-in-residence at The Joyce SoHo. She has received NEFA’s New England States Touring and Dance Fund grants.

Kenner Brodsky’s work has been performed at Joyce SoHo, Puffin Room, DanceNow Festivals, Dance Space, WAX, Dixon Place, Judson Church and Dumbo Dance Festival, Bates Dance Festival, Wilbury Theater Group, Dance Complex, AS220, Jamestown Arts Center, Great Friends Festival, Provincetown Dance Festival, Massachusetts Dance Festival, Southern Vermont Dance Festival and Dance for Peace. She has designed award-winning movement for The Wilbury Theater Group (Providence), and served as rehearsal director for and danced with the national touring company Lostwax Multimedia Dance from 2012–15. She has performed with Andy Russ, Jessica Howard, Rose Pasquarello-Beauchamp, Betsy Miller Dance Projects, Emma Hogarth and 83 paperbirds-moving lab.

Kenner Brodsky has been an adjunct dance faculty at Roger Williams Univ., Salve Regina Univ. and Dean College, and a guest choreographer at Salve, Dean, Skidmore and Providence Colleges. She graduated with honors in dance from Skidmore. A Rhode Island native, Kenner Brodsky makes home in Dartmouth, Mass with her husband, two children and five chickens.

about the project

MoMents of Nice is an evening-length dance-theater work exploring memory, loss, and love. Three dancers perform short vignettes choreographed by Ali Kenner Brodsky, with live music by composer MorganEve Swain of Warren, RI. MoMents of Nice will premiere at Jamestown Art Center in Jamestown, RI, as well as Space Gallery in Maine.