Doma Dance Theater

Doma,  Carpatho-Rusyn word for “at home,” cultivates a sense of belonging, curiosity, and exuberant self-expression for its performers and audiences. Their cross-cultural approach creates powerful contemporary dance works that examine shared experiences of diaspora and displacement.

The company is led by Artistic Director and cultural activist Alexandra Bodnarchuk, the first Carpatho-Rusyn American choreographer to make contemporary work with a folk lens. Informed by Bodnarchuk’s Slavic and Balkan cultural upbringing in Pittsburgh, PA, Doma’s work weaves cultural influences, circular spatial patterning, and intimate partnering together to tell unique stories.

These works blaze a trail for Slavic representation in contemporary dance, demonstrating the enduring necessity of unearthing the cultural legacies that each of us carry.

Founded in 2024, Doma represents an evolution of Alexandra Bodnarchuk Dance Projects (ABDP), founded in 2017. Building upon Bodnarchuk’s past focus on body identity and societal expectations of womanhood, Doma continues to unfold the embodied experience in an ongoing search for the elusive feeling of home.

Artistic Director, Choreographer, and Founder Alexandra Bodnarchuk is a Carpatho-Rusyn American choreographer and cultural activist. Her works center the body as a tangible site of culture, and explore self-expression, community, dispossession, and cross-cultural identity in solo pieces to ensemble works.

She is a 2021 Ann & Weston Hicks Choreography Fellow at Jacob’s Pillow and a 2022 & 2020 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow Finalist (Jerome Foundation). Her works have been commissioned by The Museum of Russian Art, Alternative Motion Project, Threads Dance Project, and Arena Dances.

Her work is known throughout the States and Europe for its innovation, and ability to tell new stories woven from threads and melodies of the old. She is one of 58 artists featured in the exhibit Forms of Presence: Art of Lemkos/Carpatho-Rusyns, curated by Michał Szymko, currently on display at the Ethnography Museum in Warsaw Poland. 

Producing Artistic & Music Director, and Co-Founder Brandon Musser's notable credits reflect service as artistic associate to Alexandra Bodnarchuk Dance Projects, composer and sound designer to the Taja Will Ensemble, technical work for Hatch Dance, and design for Marcela Michelle.