Fall 2023 Office Hours: Thursday 2:00pm-3:30pm or by appointment
Alston Tyndall is an energetic mover, choreographer, advocate, and learner. Alston is deeply interested in the various ways people engage with one another depending on their upbringings and values. Originally from North Carolina, she earned a BA in Sociology and Dance with a Professional Performance Certificate from Meredith College.
Alston was selected to perform in the American Dance Festival’s (ADF) hOt sUmMeR pOp uPs! choreographed by Mark Dendy in 2019, while also training and performing with the OM Grown Dancers in Durham, North Carolina, from 2019 to 2021. While at Meredith College, Alston founded and collaborated with others to form a dance improvisation group on campus, Meredith College Improv. Alston’s choreographic work has been recognized at the American College Dance Association National Conference, “Grit & Backbone.” Outside of dancing and choreographing, she has also worked closely with Black Box Dance Theatre and the LGBT Center of Raleigh as a social media intern and grant writer. Alston’s research has been primarily focused on their own lived experiences as a queer person with an invisible disability born and raised in the evangelical south. Additionally, Alston is interested in the use of somatic practices to relieve trauma held within the body. Alston’s goals through performance art and teaching are to try and make the dance community a more progressive, inclusive, and accessible space for everyone to feel seen.