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Alexia Adcock:

Theater Dance Director: Alexia Adcock

She grew up in Palm Beach Gardens, FL, and studied at the Palm Beach Ballet Center under Joan Miller in her formal years, studying ballet from Fionna Fairre (RB) and Victoria Leigh (ABT). Alexia Adcock received her BFA, cum laude, in Ballet, from Texas Christian University; Instruction from Li Chou Cheng (Boston Ballet), David Hochoy (Graham), Susan Douglas Roberts (Limon), and Dian West (Jazz). She was fortunate to spend a summer at the American Dance Festival 6-Week Intensive Program where she was selected to participate in the Student Choreography Showcase. She studied with Ron Brown, Donald McKayle, and Chuck Davis (African American Dance Ensemble).

Upon graduation from college, she spent two years performing with the Corpus Christi Ballet under Christina Munrro, and taught for the Munro Ballet School. After leaving Texas, Ms. Alexia, pursued some of her other talents and began an acting career on the Alhambra Dinner Theater stage where she became a member of AEA. Favorite rolls of hers include Elaine in Arsenic and Old Lace, Fruma Sarah in Fiddler on the Roof, Hot Box Girl in Guys and Dolls, Two Ladies in Cabaret, and Portia in Cinderella, just to name a few. She has toured the country twice in National Tour Read Me A Story as Pippi Longstocking, with guest star, Danny Glover, and North American Tour Bye-Bye Birdie as Nancy, with guest star Troy Donohue. She has also been seen on television dancing for Gwen Stefani and No Doubt for the VH1 special, Race to Erase MS.

Ms. Alexia has been teaching dance of all kinds for half of her lifetime and performing for nearly 90%. She continues to perform with the Jacksonville Ballet Theatre, under Dulce Anaya, as a guest artist, and in her own troupe of Adult Dancers at Boleros. She also has a deep love of the visual arts and teaches Art at the Grace Lutheran School.

Ms. Alexia maintains a philosophy that has designed her style of teaching. She teaches her craft in a unique style infusing classic technique with the modern understanding that any BODY can BE a DANCER. She believes that studying dance is a doorway to unlocking the true gifts of ones nature and she offers her un-ending support to her students and their families in the quest for their education of mind, body, and soul.

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