George Alley / Alley Ink Dance

Who is George Alley? George Alley (MFA) is the founder and creative director of Alley Ink Dance an award winning multimedia dance company based in Philadelphia. He is also a musician. Previously in the band Dien Kopf for 10 years, he has become a solo artist who frequently collaborates with others.This space will be used as a satellite for Alley's dance and music projects which are displayed in more detail on his seperate Alley Ink and George Alley websites found at www.georgealley.com
What is Alley Ink/George Alley Dance?
Work that gazes beyond the normal scope of gender, race, sexual orientation and class, and instead delves into the psychological makeup of theatrical characters. These characters are individual, and are made from fragments of subtext found within myth, multi-media and personal experience.Through the phenomenological process work can be embellish upon with the fragments of information collected by conducting interviews, coding text, creating maps and charts, and keeping a journal. Alley Ink Dance is a company that creates work that is both reflective of process and studied in subject.The synthesis of George Alley's studies in dance, theatre and multimedia art has been the creation of a corporal language. And while he has created a framework to develop a vocabulary from, this framework is not a codification of movement styles. While it draws upon many influences, the style created is not a deliberate fusion of different techniques.
Alley Ink Dance Repertory
Sugar Shake Sloppy State of the Crematory Virgin
Performed May 27 and 28.2005 The Ethical Society Building, Philadelphia PA"Sugar Shakes" is a palindromic story of a 70's streetwalker. Lighting by Michael Keeler. Music: The Michael Zager Band
Lionel Ritchie
Choreographed with Group A Dance Performed May 6.2005 Berkley Arts Center CA and FEB 04-05.05 (Clip is from this performance) Homo,Oh No! @ The William Way Ballroom, Philadelphia 28.2005 Lionel Ritchie is long distance collaboration between the two choreographers alyssa lee wilmot/group A and george alley/Alley Ink and san francisco based composer and laptop performer cenk ergn who composed the score. Observe as these three artists move through near flawless simultaneous spheres of media, time and Lionel Ritchie.