sive support from the public, funders, and the press. As a choreographer independent of his work with ‘The Foundry, Alex Ketley has out the United States and Europe. For this work he has received acknowledgement from the Hubbard Street National Choreographic Competition (2001), the Inter- national Choreographic Competition of the Festival des Arts de Saint-Saveaur (2004), the National Choo Goh Award (2005), the inaugural Princess Grace Aw for Choreography (2003), the BNC National Choreo- graphic Competition (2008), three CHIME Fellowships 2007, 2008, and 2012), four Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography Residencies (2007, 2009, 2014, and 2085), the Gerbode-Hewlett Choreographer Com- missioning Award (2009), and the National Eben Det est Award (2012). His pieces and collaborations have also been awarded Isadora Duncan Awards in the categories ing Achievement by an Ensemble (2009), Choreography (zon), and Company (ou & 20% AXIS Dance Company work 16 Golor Me Dif- ferent was presented on national television through ai invitation from the show So You Think You Can Dance. With The Foundry in 2012, he began a new project enti- tled No Hero which explored what dance means and how it is experienced by people throughout more rural parts. of the American West. he video projection Alex created for No Hero was nominated for a 2012 Isadora Duncan Award for Outstanding Achievement in Visual Design. In 2013, he began appointment as a Lecturer at Stan- 's Department of Theater and Perfor- mance Studies (TAPS). In that same year he was also awarded the first Princess Grace Foundation Chore- ography Mentorship Go-Commission Award (CMCC) a MANCC Media Fellowship, and a Kenneth Rainin Foundation New and Experimental Works Grant which he used to work on a collaborative project with Miguel Gutierrez exploring rural communities throughout the Deep South (Vo Hero = Part 3). Also in 2014, he created and premiered his dance film The Gift (of Impermanence) which has continued to screen at film festivals interna~ ally, as well as winning the 2015 Artistry Award from. the Superfest International Disability Filin Festival. Along with his direction of The Foundry, his various in- dependent projects, and his appointment at Stanford, he helped Summer Lee Rhatigan create The San Francisco Conservatory of Dance in 2004, an organization where