Alethea (M.F.A., University of Washington) is a Seattle-based dance artist and educator. Community, sensuality, care, effort and collaboration are central tenets of her creative work with dance partners human, object and sonic.
In Seattle, Alethea is Co-Founder and Teaching Artist for Ballet Rituals, a queer and community-based movement practice. She is also Artistic Co-Director with Undercurrent, where she additionally teaches local weekly classes and international traveling workshops.
Bringing practitioners together in open-level movement joy, Alethea has been teaching Dance Church® in Seattle since 2017, and served as the inaugural Director of Training and Teacher Relations for the company from 2022-2026. Alethea's additional teaching appointments include the University of Washington Department of Dance (2017-present), Cornish College of the Arts (2020-present), Velocity Dance Center's SFD+I summer festival (2019, 2022-26), Whatcom Community College (2014-2016), as well as recurring guest teaching for ODC Dance (2013), Bellingham Repertory Dance (2013-2017) the Seattle Piano Institute (2017-2025), Sam Houston State University (2019-2021) and others.
She performs her own improvised, choreographed and installation-based works in collaboration with multidisciplinary artists in Seattle and nationally. Recurrent collaborators include Hannah Simmons, Adele Nickel, Rachael Lincoln, maia melene d'urfé and others. Her recent works have been supported by 4Culture, Base Expierimental Arts + Space, the Kreielsheimer Foundation, Bellingham Repertory Dance, Cornish College of the Arts, and Sam Houston State University.
Born in Washington State, Alethea grew up in the little northwest corner city of Bellingham.