Alyssa Gregory, Tia Greer & McKenzie Chinn
A solo dance piece featuring Tia Greer, choreography and direction by Alyssa Gregory, music and lyrics from McKenzie Chinn of Growing Concerns Poetry Collective.
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Alyssa Gregory
Alyssa (Uhh-lee’sa) Gregory, originally from Northern Virginia is a Chicago-based performer, choreographer, teaching artist, and arts administrator. She holds a BFA in Dance & Choreography from Virginia Commonwealth University and a Masters of Arts in Performing Arts Administration from Roosevelt University. During her time in Chicago, she has worked with companies and artists such as The Moving Architects, Joanna Furnans, Kristina Isabelle, The Leopold Group, Jenn Freeman, and Erin Kilmurray. Her work has been presented at the Chicago Fringe Festival, Salonathon, The Fly Honey Show and the Ruth Page Center for the Arts. Alyssa teaches dance all around the Chicagoland area and has worked as associate choreographer for The Fly Honey show for the past four years. She is currently the Marketing Manager for the Dance Presenting Series at Columbia College Chicago. House Targaryen. Proud Slytherin.
Tia Greer
Dancing in Chicago for over 12 years. BFA Columbia College Chicago. Danced with with Joel Hall, Peter Carpenter, Joanna Furnans and Erin Kilmurray in the Fly Honey Show (cast member) and continued work “Search Party” which was most recently shown at Dance Box in Kobe Japan
McKenzie Chinn
Chinn is the writer, producer, and lead actor of the feature film Olympia, which premiered at the 2018 LA Film Festival and won the Audience Award at the 2019 Bentonville Film Festival. She has appeared in indie films and on television, including shows like Empire and The Red Line. On stage, she has worked with Goodman, Victory Gardens, and Steppenwolf Theaters, as well as the famous Second City in Chicago, and Woolly Mammoth and The Studio Theater in Washington D.C. An accomplished poet, her work has appeared in TriQuarterly, Rattle, PANK, and others, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She is part of the acclaimed Growing Concerns Poetry Collective, which released their second studio album Big Dark Bright Futures earlier this year.
About the Performance
A solo dance piece featuring Tia Greer, choreography and direction by Alyssa Gregory, music and lyrics from McKenzie Chinn of Growing Concerns Poetry Collective.
