about alexandria
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Hailed by Dance Informa as “grace with power,” Alexandria Nunweiler creates exciting, palpable, and hilarious dance/theater for her home audiences in Boston, MA and beyond. She is known for making a mess of the stage – whether it be flooding the space with wine or dropping 2,000 balloons from the ceiling – her work births the spectacular from the ordinary, calling attention to the universality present within specific experience.
Alexandria’s choreographic work has most recently been supported and recognized locally by the Boston Center for the Arts (2025/26), New England Foundation for the Arts (2026), The Boston Foundation (2024/25), and The Dance Complex (2023/24), as well as internationally through the ATLAS residency at ImPulsTanz in Vienna, Austria (2026) and The Rensing Center in Borseda, Italy (2022). While pushing the boundaries of performance, her work has been featured at Ailey Citigroup Theater (NYC), the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, BOOM Charlotte, and Piccolo Spoleto (Charleston, SC), among others. A believer in multidisciplinary collaboration, Alexandria has worked with dancers, choreographers, designers, theater practitioners, and musicians across her career, most notably composer Calvin Hitchcock (SALVAGE), playwright Kirsten Greenidge (Company One’s Co-Lab), and choreographer Lonnie Stanton (Emotive Land). Alexandria is a graduate of Winthrop University (BA, Dance) and Hult International Business School (MSc, International Business) where she studied both in the US and China. She has an international approach to dancemaking and dance learning, believing in a holistic, community-based practice that guides her performance and classroom work. Alexandria is an adjunct professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and a founding member of Boston-based dance collective The Click where she co-leads the educational team. Though all of this work, she continues to be guided by the value that movement is for everybody and every body, a philosophy that spans her stagework, teaching, and daily life. |
Press & Profiles:
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BOSTON GLOBE
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INTERVIEW WITH KATHRYN BOLAND, DANCE INFORMA
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WINTHROP ALUMNI PROFILE
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Edge of Aquarius IN DANCE INFORMA
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Cover photo by Gabriel Lorena; Headshot by Nell Mancini