Alethea Pace
Artist in Residence, 2023–2025
Alethea Pace is a Bronx-based multidisciplinary choreographer and performer. A recipient of the 2021 Dance Magazine Harkness Promise Award, her most recent work, Here goes the neighborhood.., was presented at Works and Process at the Guggenheim and premiered at BAAD! with support from the Bronx Council on the Arts, the BAAD! Muse Residency and Angela’s Pulse. Her work has also been presented at the Bronx Museum, Pregones Theater, Dancing While Black, Danspace Project, New York Live Arts and the 92Y. Pace trained at Mind-Builders Creative Arts Center in the Bronx and received her BA in Urban Design from New York University and an MFA in Digital and Interdisciplinary Arts from the City College of New York.
Photo by Whitney Browne
Residency Activities
Listening with: Drake Park
“We’re at a moment in time where there is a lot of effort to ignore the history of slavery. It’s really important for us to name and acknowledge and center that history as a way to understand how we can move forward.”
During her residency at The Met, Pace hosted “Listening With: Drake Park,” an afternoon of dialogue, reflection and connection with local community members. The event featured invited speakers including Rodrick Bell, Phil Panaritis and Justin Czarka of the Hunts Point Slave Burial Ground Project, a work-in-progress sharing of movement and text, and participatory storytelling. Over a shared meal, community members gathered to engage in conversation about our collective responsibility to steward this land, honor its legacy, and reimagine our futures. Beverly Emers and the team at Bronx Arts Space graciously provided refuge from the rain, and hosted the event in their space.
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The Civic Practice Project is made possible by The William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust.