
Dancer | Choreographer | Director | Teacher
stage film immersive
Alexandra primarily focuses her art form on interdisciplinary productions, and enjoys depicting nuanced and interlaced relationships on massive and atomic scales. She is motivated by possibilities that lie within art, science and technologic collaborations, and she explores this through stage creations, films, photography and immersive installations.
Originally from Colorado, Alexandra earned her BFA from SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Dance, during which she also spent a semester training at Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts in Perth, Australia. At both institutions, she trained heavily in ballet, modern, contemporary, composition, and improvisation. Alexandra has attended and performed at festivals throughout the US, Europe, Asia and Australia, and has performed works of: Jacques Heim, Alexander Polzin, Loni Landon, Johannes Wieland, Gregory Dolbashian, Shannon Gillen, Lar Lubovitch, Gabrielle Lamb, Yin Yue, Billy Bell and Aszure Barton. She was a company member with DIAVOLO Architecture-in-Motion, and worked as an aerialist and performer in Cinereal Productions immersive theater show, Club Babalu in Los Angeles. Alexandra has worked in collaboration with choreographer Ellis Wood, and designers such as Rochambeau and FormShow for New York Fashion Week.
Alexandra was awarded an artist-in-residence with the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) in Boulder, CO, during which she created a gallery exhibition, live dance performances, and dance short films based off of a variety of space phenomena and the research of LASP astrophysicists, scientists, and engineers. She was an invited participant of the Arctic Circle Artist and Scientist Residency in Svalbard, Norway and was awarded an artist-in-residence at Green Box Arts. Currently, she is working as an Art and Science Consultant for the NASA PUNCH Mission Outreach Team with the Southwest Research Institute whom she collaborated with to develop and create Dancing Up a Solar Storm.
Alexandra has presented work at Fiske Planetarium, Green Box Arts, NewSteps Chen Dance Center, The West End Theater, Hudson River Museum, Gibney Dance and The Canyon Gallery. She has been a guest lecturer at California Polytechnic State University, University of Colorado Boulder, a guest teacher at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs Dance Department and Michigan State University, She has given seminars about the art and science relationship at LASP, University of Colorado Boulder, and CalPoly.
Alexandra is the founder of Move To Protect, an organization focusing on environmental dance projects in order to bring awareness to environmental crises. Movetoprotect.com