"The Catalyst Sessions'/w Bill DeYoung: Alex Jones

Alex Jones

Monday’s edition of The Catalyst Sessions was spent in the company of dancer/choreographer Alex Jones, one of the bay area’s most innovative and exciting movement artists.

Through his work with the University Of South Florida Department of Dance, the annual Beacon Dance production, thestudio@620 (where he is choreographer-in-residence) and his own Project Alchemy company, Jones has shown time and time again that modern dance is fluid, and limitless, and can be as musical as a freeform jazz combo or as disciplined as the chapters in a book.

In the best scenarios, it’s both, and it’s neither.

The new all-virtual world has Jones, like other choreographers, thinking outside the bigger box. “I’m a person that wants to connect with my audience, in a way that’s interactive and gets you thinking,” he said. “I don’t like to give all the secrets out about the performance – so how can I do this without my body being there? How can I be a body-less dancer?” #stpetecatalyst #stpete #Florida #TampaBay #Radio