Becky Kendall
Company Founder, Artistic Director
Becky is a choreographer, performer, and educator based in Anchorage, Alaska. Creating work for a stage, a park, or a rooftop, she is inspired to connect to people in new ways and in nontraditional environments She studied dance first in her home town of Anchorage, to New York and then Colorado where she received a B.S. in Health and Exercise Science with an emphasis on Sports Medicine at Colorado State University. She has had opportunities to study and perform works by David Dorfman, KT Niehoff, Lasara Jarvis, Chung Fu Chang, Judy Bejarano, Katherine Kramer, and more.
After returning home to Anchorage, Becky founded Momentum Dance Collective with 6 fellow artists in 2008 and continues to serve as Artistic Director. Momentum continues to push boundaries on how dance is presented in Alaska by working with other innovative artists, designers, and technicians.
With a passion for choreography, Becky has continued to create work and collaborate with other artists at every opportunity. Her work has been featured in and around the Anchorage community from the University of Alaska Anchorage, to many local dance studios and schools. She is also a founding member of the Light Brigade - an interdisciplinary art collective, and her choreography has been featured in multiple, collaborative site specific works with them since 2009 including their most recent and acclaimed, 'Over Beyond Across Through' on the Anchorage Museum in 2013. As part of this work she received an Independent Artist Fellowship Award from the Rasmuson Foundation in 2013. She is also one of the artists behind Kendall | Marrari, a multi-faceted and interdisciplinary artist team that plans and executes arts interventions such as MimeSpenard (2017).
As an instructor she has taught modern for the Anchorage School District, Dance Together Alaska Festival 2008, Dance Spectrum School, and Momentum Dance workshops. She served as Adjunct for the University of Alaska Anchorage dance program from 2008 to 2017, and was the leading modern instructor for Alaska Dance Theatre from 2009-2016..
Believing that art has the power to impact on our daily lives, Becky thrives on creating opportunities for her community to connect to arts experiences in surprising ways. Bringing dance and performance art out of the theatre and into the world, her goal is to break down the barriers that can limit access to this form. Becky continues to work and perform in Anchorage where she is inspired by creative risk takers, performers, her students, and the language of everyday movement.