Dance Alloy

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Dance Alloy is a modern dance repertory company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

It was established in 1976 at the University of Pittsburgh as a collective of eight dancers. Dance Alloy moved off campus in 1980, and two years later Susan Gillis and Elsa Limbach, both original collective members, were named co-artistic directors. Limbach became sole artistic director in 1984 and moved the company to studio space in the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh.

Mark Taylor became artistic director in 1991 and the company continued to grow, touring extensively both nationally and internationally, and offering dance classes in the community. In 1995 it expanded again, under the executive director Stephanie Flom, building its own state-of-the-art studios and employing six full-time dancers as well as numerous technical staff and arts administrators.

Dance Alloy's repertory has included works by Lynn Dally, Mark Dendy, Eiko & Koma, Bill T. Jones, José Limón, Victoria Marks, Charles Moulton, Douglas Nielson, Tere O'Connor, Pilobolus, and Elizabeth Streb.

Since 2003 Beth Corning is the artistic director of the company.