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.
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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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