Hailed as an artist who brings “a fierce fluidity in performance and a brooding surrealism in choreography” (Minneapolis Star Tribune), Alyce Finwall has been choreographing since 1994, developing a uniquely creative and theatrical style, noted for having an “impressive and accomplished choreographic symphony” (SF Examiner) and for “athletic, voracious and exuberant movement” (Oakland Examiner), while also bringing “a bit of glamour to the dance world” (Minneapolis City Pages). Alyce has produced over forty original works and has also had the great pleasure of collaborating with many diverse artists on works for stage and film in contemporary ballet, musical theater and avant-garde theatrical productions.

Alyce’s wide-ranging dance career began after a brief hiatus from dance to study visual art and communications theory at Hamline University. She danced professionally with the groundbreaking Minneapolis based company, Ballet of the Dolls, where she performed in over 20 original ballets with the company and was its first ever guest choreographer. She also danced with Rincones & Company in Washington, DC and studied with the Cullberg Ballet in Sweden (under invitation from artistic director Lena Wennergren-Juras), the Cunningham Dance Company (with a travel/study grant from the Jerome Foundation) and with many teachers of ballet and contemporary techniques in NYC, Minneapolis, DC and San Francisco.

Alyce’s work has been presented at such venues as P.S. 122, The Joyce SoHo, Dance Theater Workshop (New York Live Arts), Dixon Place, 92nd Street Y on 42nd Street, Cunningham Theater, White Wave Theater, The Cowell Theater, The Southern Theater, ODC Theater, The Garage Theater, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, American College Dance Festival as well as for film and many musical theater productions. She has received support from the McKnight Choreographic Fellowship, continued support from the Jerome Foundation, as well as awards from the Zellerbach Family Foundation and Kenneth Rainin Foundation.

Alyce holds an MFA from Mills College where she was awarded the Liatis Foundation Award and is an ABT certified teacher.

Alyce has taught and choreographed for college and pre-professional programs such as the San Francisco Conservatory of Dance, Radford University, Cedar Crest College, Napa Valley College, Santa Rosa Junior College, Mission College and Mills College, and is currently the director and owner of Moving Arts Academy of Dance in San Francisco.