Ali was recognized with a 2022 Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship in Choreography and was honored to be a part NEFA’S New England Regional Dance Development Initiative 2021/22.

Brodsky has been an artist-in-residence at the Croft: Ground for Art 2019 and the Joyce SoHo 2003/4. She was an Emerging Choreographer in Residence at the Bates Dance Festival in 2016 and was a 2018/19 Catalysts artist at the Dance Complex. She was a 2014 recipient of the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Choreography Fellowship.

In addition, she has received support from NEFA’s New England States Touring and Dance Fund, and from the Arts & Cultural Alliance of Newport County. Ali has designed award-winning choreography for The Wilbury Theatre Group (Providence), and worked as a rehearsal director/dancer with the national touring company Lostwax Multimedia Dance (2012–15).

She graduated with honors in dance from Skidmore College. A Rhode Island native, AKB makes home in Dartmouth, MA with her husband, two children and five chickens.

Ali collaborates with artists from a spectrum of disciplines.

Jarret Blinkhorn, Jacqui DeFrança, Rich Ferri, Anna Highsmith, Cyrus Highsmith, Keri King, Scott McPheeters, Jenna Pollack, Andy Russ, Jessi Stegall, MorganEve Swain, Dr. Ilya Vidrin, and past dancers.

Learn more about these collaborators here.

My dance works are crafted to enable the viewer to indulge in a world of reflection and connection. They bring human experience and emotion to the forefront, giving audiences a chance to witness a physical and unique kind of communication that exists across space and time.

I close my eyes, breathe, then move. In so doing, I encourage others to engage rather than circumvent the power of their own inner dialogue. Though my work is filled with meaning based on my personal experience, I create opportunities for the viewer to contemplate, experience the work for themselves, and uncover their own meaning in the performance. My live dance pieces and dance films center on memory, connection, and loss. Creatively, I work to illustrate pain, capturing its power and transforming it into healing for myself and others.