WHO'S WHO
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
ALEX KETLEY (creator) is an independent choreog-
rapher, filmmaker, and the director of The Foundry
Formally a classical dancer with the San Francisco
Ballet (1994-1998), he performed a wide range of clas-
sical and contemporary repertory with the company
in San Francisco and on tour throughout the world. In
1998 he left the San Francisco Ballet to co-found The
Foundry in order to explore his deepening interests
in choreography, improvisation, mixed media work,
and collaborative process. With The Foundry he has
been an artist in residence at many leading art insti-
tutions including Headlands Center for the Arts (2001
and 2007), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (2002), The
Yard (2003), the Santa Fe Art Institute (2004 and 2006),
the Taipei Artist Village (2005), ODC Theater (2000),
the Ucross Foundation (2007), and the Vermont Pei
formance Lab (2014). The Foundry has produced fi
teen full evening length works that have received exten