Alicia Peterson Baskel has been making dances in San Diego since 2003 and recently received her MFA in Dance Theatre from UC San Diego.  Her choreographic work has been presented locally by Sushi Contemporary Performance and Visual Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Patricia Rincon Dance Collective, San Diego Dance Alliance, San Diego State University Community Artists Series, And UC San Diego. As a dancer, Alicia has performed with choreographers Yolande Snaith, Lionel Popkin, Allyson Green, John Malashock, and Nancy McCaleb and has studied with both Tere O’Connor and Deborah Hay.Recently, her work toured internationally to the Instituto de Clultura de Baja California in Tijuana, Mexico and the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space in Prague, Czech Republic.  Currently, Alicia is in the process of forming a professional non-profit contemporary dance company in San Diego and teaches Beginning Contemporary Dance at UC San Diego.