Alexa Annese, teaching artist

Alexa Annese is a lively and dedicated dance artist, dance educator, fitness coach, and motivator. Throughout her various fruitful experiences in the dance, fitness, and entertainment spaces, Alexa has always led with her heart and continues to radiate her light to every space she is in. Alexa possesses tremendous gratitude for her dance roots developed at her local studio, Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music, Art & Performing Arts, Adelphi University, and Broadway Dance Center, amongst others. Alexa has experiences in the concert, commercial, and musical theater dance worlds. She performed LaGuardia’s production of Beauty and the Beast at the Winter Garden Theatre, works from several choreographers, namely Frederick Earl Mosley, Oliver Tobin, Jesse Obremski, Brian Brooks, Patrick Coker, Aszure Barton, Marc Kimmelman, and Maleek Washington at the Manhattan Movement Arts Center, Adelphi’s Performing Arts Center, Martha Graham School, and the Ailey School. She also has had opportunities in backstage dancing for stars Judy Torres and Angelo Venuto, at KTU Beatstock and The Freestyle Free For All. In addition to performing, Alexa has worked in the performing arts space in other ways, including working at Saturday Night Live as a Writer’s Research Intern, interning as a Social Media intern at the American Tap Dance Foundation and a Public relations intern at Heidi Latsky Dance. Alexa is currently earning her masters degree at Hunter College in the Arnhold Graduate Dance Education program. Whether on stage or in the classroom, Alexa is committed to inspiring individuals to freely live and dance out loud as their best and most authentic version of themselves by focusing on their desires and needs, integrating mindfulness strategies, encouraging exploration, culturally relevant discourse, and reflective practice. For every student that comes her way, she hopes to be able to be a light in their lives, a figure that believes, accepts, and supports them, and someone who can help them grow and become their truest selves.