Alexis Diggs

Alexis Diggs is a 26-year-old independent artist from Dayton, Ohio, based in Brooklyn, New York. She is a 2025 Wasatch Contemporary Dance Company Movers & Makers Fellow, Brooklyn Ballet Choreographic Incubator Choreographer, 2024 Royal Conservatoire, The Hague, ChoreoComp choreographer, Eisenhower Dance Detroit NewDANCEfest Emerging Choreographer, Black Midwest Initiative fellow, 2023 Culture Works Artist Opportunity Grantee, and an Allegro Grant recipient.

A former Doug Varone Devices choreographer and Sarasota Contemporary Dance Company Rising Choreographer, Lex has created and presented works in the Netherlands, Utah, Cleveland, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Detroit, New York City, Florida, and the greater Dayton area.

Alexis’s commissions include works set on Wasatch Contemporary Dance Company, Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, Dancing Wheels Company, and Sarasota Contemporary Dance Company; her independent work has been presented at Culture Lab LIC’s ARISE Spring Dance Festival, Dance Bloc NYC at Dixon Place, Black Is…. Choreographer’s showcase, and was featured in Culture Lab LIC’s exhibit “Bodies in Motion”.

She is a Jacob’s Pillow 2023-2024 Curriculum In Motion Institute Cohort graduate, and has been featured on the teaching faculty for Brooklyn Ballet’s Elevate education and outreach program, Forza Dance, Dayton Contemporary Dance Company II, International Association of Blacks in Dance on the 1 dance series, Ohio University Summer Dance, Ohio Dance Festival, Miami Valley Ballet Theater, Jeraldyne’s School of Dance, and others.