Alexandra Warren

Alexandra Joye Warren is a Director/Choreographer, an Assistant Professor at Elon University’s Music Theatre Program, and the Founding Artistic Director of JOYEMOVEMENT. 

Her most recent credits at Elon include First Daughter Suite (Director), An American In Paris (Director), Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 (Director),  Legally Blonde (Choreographer), Myths and Hymns (Director),  Deep Water Ballad (Director), Head Over Heels(Choreographer), 42nd Street (Co-Director),  and for the Elon BFA dance program Dissent/Descent (Spring '24),  Aperture (Fall '22), Girls In My Neighborhood (Spring '21), Reclamation (Fall '20).

Alexandra is the 2025 recipient of the Jan Van Dyke Legacy Award, which honors an individual who makes NC a great place to dance. 

Alexandra’s choreographic work has been commissioned by and/or presented at the American Dance Festival, Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, the North Carolina Dance Festival, Bucknell University, GreenHill Gallery, Boom Festival Charlotte, the Asheville Fringe Festival, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, the North Carolina Museum of Art,  Greensboro Project Space, the Black on Black Project, INSPIRIT dance, NY Live Arts (formerly Dance Theatre Workshop), Gibney, Greensboro College, Guilford College, Trillium Performing Arts WV, The Rickhouse (Durham, NC) the BeBe Theatre (Asheville, NC), Van Dyke Performance Space, The Carolina Theatre,  the Solar One Dance Festival (East River Manhattan), Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, Tribeca Performing Arts Center and beyond. 

Alexandra’s most recent residencies include a writing residency at Trillium Arts in Mars Hill, NC; a residency at Hyers-Creative in Greensboro; the North Carolina Dance Festival's year-long residency; Elsewhere Museum; and the Inaugural Greensboro Downtown Parks Artist-in-Residence. 

Her performance career includes performing in dance and theater under the direction of Bill T. Jones in workshop productions of FELA! The Musical, Christal Brown’s INSPIRIT, Paloma and Patricia McGregor’s Angela’s Pulse, Maxine Montilus, Sydnie L. Mosley Dances,  Jan Van Dyke Dance Group and others.  

She has completed post-graduate study and training at the Uprooted Jazz Dance Educators Workshop,  the Summer Directing Intensive at Yale University, and L’Ecole De Sables under the direction of Germaine Acogny and her company Jant-Bi in Toubab Dialaw, Senegal, Urban Bush Women’s Summer Leadership Institute, Brooklyn, NY, Dance Exchange Summer Institute Takoma Park, MD. 

She is a contributing author of the newly published Dance in Musical Theatre: A History of the Body in Movement, edited by Phoebe Rumsey and Dustyn Marticinch, published by Methuen Drama. 

She has presented her scholarship at the Association for the Study of African American Life and History conference in Pittsburgh, PA, the International Federation of Theatre Research Conference at the University of Ghana, Legon, and the Collegium of African Diaspora Dance Conference at Duke University. Alexandra is also a member of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education’s Embodied Histories Working Group. 

She’s been a guest artist at Cumberland County Public Schools, Bucknell University, Dance Project, Guilford County Schools, and Summer Faculty at MTCA-New York. 

She is a graduate of Spelman College (BA) and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (MFA).

@alexandrajoyewarren

https://www.alexandrajoye.com/

https://www.joyemovement.com/