Director/Choreographer

"JOYEMOVEMENT dance company proved how powerful a solo can be if its based on the truth and speaks truth to power" - The Herald Sun

Alexandra Joye Warren

Alexandra Joye Warren is currently an Assistant Professor of Performing Arts at Elon University and a Director/Choreographer for the Music Theatre program as well as the Founding Artistic Director of JOYEMOVEMENT. Her most recent projects include Adam Guettel's Myths and Hymns (Director), Dissent/Descent (Choreographer, Concert Dance), Deep Water Ballad (Director/Choreographer) a new musical in development by Chris Rayis and Douglas Waterbury-Tieman, Love Notes (Artistic Director and Choreographer) Head Over Heels (Associate Director/Choreographer), 42nd Street (Co-Director), and A Wicked Silence: A Choreoplay (Playwright, Director, Choreographer).

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Greensboro News and Record, February 22, 2020

Article by Dawn Kane:

"Warren's mission is to tell the stories of the African Diaspora and explore the Afro-Future through dance.

When did you form your dance company? After living in New York for about seven years, I moved to Greensboro with my husband and infant daughter. After about a year, I became restless with wanting to perform the work I was beginning to create in New York. In New York, I was fortunate to work with women of the Urban Bush Women lineage like Christal Brown and Paloma McGregor and other women choreographers who told powerful stories with their choreography.

In 2014, I decided to create Joyemovement to give professional dancers in this region an opportunity to continue performing professionally."

Rewind: 1968 is a requiem for the possible, a ceremonial remembrance in honor of what could have been. The second iteration of a series of creative works exploring the history and consequences of the North Carolina Eugenics program by Alexandra Joye Warren and her dance company, JOYEMOVEMENT, Rewind: 1968 brings the stories of those victimized by sterilization to the stage as a culmination of the company’s Creative Greensboro residency at the Hyers Theatre. The work brings to life the story of a young couple in the late sixties Piedmont Triad and the mysterious character who brings the pair together in the hope of fulfillment of a mission of intergalactic importance. Marrying themes of Afro-Futurism, Southern Blues traditions, historic narrative, and contemporary choreography, this production workshops the story of what will later become a full-scale opera by starting with the themes of the work expressed through movement.

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About Alexandra

Alexandra Joye Warren is the Founding Artistic Director of JOYEMOVEMENT. She was recently selected as a 2024 Artist In Residence at Trillium Arts in Mars Hill, NC, a 2023 Residency at the Hyers through Creative Greensboro, a 2022-2023 Artist-In-Residence for the North Carolina Dance Festival and was named the Inaugural Artist-in-Residence at the Greensboro Downtown Parks in 2021.

Alexandra has completed post-graduate studies at the Yale Summer Directing Intensive, Leadership Initiative Project for Emerging Directors, and at Germaine Acogny’s L’Ecole De Sables in Senegal. Alexandra has presented her scholarship most recently at the International Federation for Theatre Research Conference in Accra Ghana, 2023. She is a contributing author in the newly released book DANCE IN MUSICAL THEATRE: A HISTORY OF THE BODY IN MOVEMENT, Bloomsbury Press.

As a performer some her favorite projects include working on the development of FELA! with Bill T. Jones, performances of Blood Dazzler with Paloma and Patricia McGregor and as a company member and interim Artistic Director of Christal Brown’s INSPIRIT.