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Theatre

© A. Davis & A. Disla

Arts Education

We Devise

Theatre

A2D2 Theatre is a creative company established in 2021 by ​Alexandria Davis and Antonio Disla. We devise performances that ​use drama, dance, improvisation, and other creative processes to ​create immersive experiences for artists and performing arts ​scholars of all ages.


We work closely with your artistic team to design art experiences, ​seminars, and performances that feature heightened language ​and embodied storytelling techniques that foster empathy, self-​awareness, and resilience among participants.

© A. Davis & A. Disla

© A. Davis & A. Disla

What We Offer

Dance Technique

Dance classes utilize backward design techniques ​to promote total body integration. Our classes are ​curated to encourage diverse approaches to ​movement in a safe and inclusive environment.


We prioritize axial-skeletal alignment, breath ​support, deep abdominal conditioning, and spinal ​articulation.

Directing & Choreography

In addition to covering directing and choreography, ​the workshop will adopt a collaborative approach ​to dramaturgical research, storytelling, rehearsal, ​development, and devising.

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Heightened Language

The workshop delves into classical and ​contemporary literature that employs elevated or ​image-laden language.


Participants gain a comprehensive understanding ​of literary devices and poetic structures that ​enliven language and connect it to modern acting ​techniques.

Performance Devising

We use prompts and guided improvisation to ​develop works that explore identity and alternative ​narratives.


Our aim is to empower artists by unearthing ​authenticity, exploring cultural biases, and ​unlearning harmful behaviors.

Alexandria Davis

Alexandria is a multi-talented artist who works as a dancer, actress, educator, choreographer, ​and screendance artist. Her choreography explores social commentary while promoting ​liberation and alternative narratives. Alexandria holds an MFA in dance choreography from the ​University of Michigan and a BFA in Dance Performance and Dance in Medicine certification ​from the University of Florida.


Influenced by her community and academic investigations of choreography, performance, ritual, ​and technique, Alexandria identifies as a post-modern choreographer. Her movement is her ​story, an abstraction of Black History choreographed to tell an ever-evolving story of American ​Myth and African American Culture.


Alexandria's teaching approach encourages efficiency and longevity in dance practice and ​performance. She uses metaphors to encourage self-reflection and emphasizes joy in every ​movement experience. Her artistic work draws inspiration from the cycle of reciprocity ingrained ​in performance as research, community partnership, and performing arts education, and is ​aimed at promoting activism through movement.


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Antonio Disla

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Disla is an Afro-Caribbean Dominican-American theatre practitioner, born and raised in ​New York City, who holds an M.F.A. in Performance from The Ohio State University.


As a Solo Artist, he has written and devised both site-specific and staged works dealing ​with identity and race. Of his works, the notables to date are Nobody, a solo piece ​about race, and Travel, which deals with identity and destiny. In addition, as a ​performing company member of The Shakespeare Forum, he has led workshops in the ​New York City Public Schools and co-taught Shakespeare for their Youth Forum ​program.


Most recently, in a cross-university collaboration with NYU Professor Emily Stone, ​Antonio co-adapted and directed the NYU Libraries' virtual staged reading of ​Midsummer Sueño, a bilingual/multivocal adaptation of a Midsummer Night's Dream. ​Additionally, he was last seen in the performance of “Prometheus. Beginnings,” a co-​devised new work directed by Bulgarian-born choreographer/ installation artist Tzveta ​Kassabova and presented as part of the “Diffractive World-Making: Theatre & Science ​Beyond the Capitalocene.”


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