Workshops

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The Reactivated Body
A workshop series with Alexa Wilson
(NZ/Germany)

Using therapeutic, theatrical and improvisational techniques, these workshops facilitate the space for the individual and collective emotional body to be heard, experienced and speak within dance, choreography and performance (art). While emotions are our underlying guidance system these are often distorted or shut down through societal or family conditioning. Therefore these workshops offer a safe space for accessing emotions, which may or may not be comfortable, given that much of art and performance is emotionally charged. It provides a space in which we can consciously find new or authentic ways of activating emotions with ourselves and audiences.

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Tutor Bio

Alexa Wilson is a New Zealand artist currently based in Berlin 6 years, having presented performance and video works in NZ, Europe, Australia, China and NYC. She will be working with Footnote NZ Dance on The Dark Light during 2017, having presented The Status of Being with the company in 2014. This last 2 years she was artist in residence at Red Gate in Beijing, and performed in the Month of Performance Art Berlin as well as in Salzburg, Stockholm and Zurich at Manifesta 11 Biennale. She has been invited to curate Morni Hills Performance Art Residency in India and will present 21 Movements and also Breathless a collaboration with NYC based Mayfield Brooks in NYC; NZ and Berlin 2017. She performed her work Oracle in Belgium, Germany, Poland, NYC and NZ 2012-14. In 2012, she created Show Pony with Nisha Madhan for the New Performance Festival, studied with Transart Institute (Berlin/NYC) and worked with Linda Montano in NYC, while her youtube video Berlin Bedroom Dance featured on ABC/Disney TV in 2013. She has danced for luminaries Douglas Wright, Lisa Densem and Malia Johnston and made work with Touch Compass. She has won awards in NZ; Weg Away, 4 Auckland Fringe Awards 11 including Auckland Arts Festival Award, Toxic White Elephant Shock, CNZ Tup Lang Award 08, Magic Box ‘Best Emerging Choreography’ NZ Listener 04. She has taught and lectured extensively at NZ dance institutions in dance and film and has a BA in Film Studies/Women's Studies and a BPSA in Contemporary Dance and an MA in Film Production.