Alexa Manalansan a San Francisco native, holds a B.A in Sociology from the University of Hawaii at Manoa where she began her modern dance training. She has trained at
the Alvin Ailey School (New York City), Berlin, and Ga’aton (Israel). She has had the pleasure of working with many Bay Area choreographers including Kristy Keefer’s Dance Mission Theatre, Sarah Shelton Mann, Daiane Lopes da Silva, Dexandro Montalvo, Sarah Bush, CatCallChoir, Kristin Damrow and Rhea Speights. She has also worked with Molly Fletcher-Lynch’s Maligrad Contemporary Dance Company where she had the opportunity to teach and perform in Arezzo, Italy in 2017. She is happy to be a founding member of PULP.