Heidee Lyn Alsdorf
Heidee Lyn Alsdorf (she/they | b.1993) is a freelance dance-theatre artist, body-worker, and educator from the southern foothills of the Ozark Mountains – Northwest Arkansas (NWA). Heidee holds a BFA in Dance Performance from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, and an MFA in Physical Theatre from Accademia dell’Arte (IT/DE/CZ) in partnership with Mississippi University for Women. They are a somatic practitioner, with a certificate in Embodied Social Justice from Transformative Justice (online) and a certification in Dry Massage Therapy from Oligenesi (Florence, IT).
They have had the privilege of interpreting works as a guest artist with TeeBoDans (USA), Broken Jump Theatre (IT), Spazio Seme (IT), and several independent choreographers. Their works have been presented by Collaborative Arts Lab (IT), Creative Spaces NWA (USA), CACHE Studios (USA), CRISISArts Festival (IT), and Spettatori Erranti La Festa (IT). Since returning to their hometown in 2022. Their approach to dance-theatre is decidedly anti-cartesian, life-affirming and collaborative, interlacing critical explorations in somatic experiencing, impulse, gesture, and community building.