Artist Statement
As a choreographer and dancer, I create embodied states that explore gestures, attitudes, and a multiplicity of being. Working between moving image, text, and natural materials, I develop interdisciplinary environments that engage the body as a site of convergence and transformation. My choreographic research focuses on articulating nonlinear and migratory forms of knowledge, drawing from diasporic memory and the speculative to engage the (im)possibility of return. The research in my work is informed by a lineage of thinkers across Black feminist, queer of color, and cultural studies. My generative movement practice, re-mapping, is rooted in contemporary dance, improvisation, and somatic practice. The work I aim to create engages peripheral modes of experiencing dance, oriented toward worldmaking that centers racialized identities and those who exist in between and beyond normative structures.
Bio
Lois Alexander is a Bay Area born, Berlin based choreographer and performer. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance from The Juilliard School. Her choreographic debut, Neptune (2020), was produced with support from Dansmakers and Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst. Neptune is a part of the Aerowaves Twenty21 network and toured within Europe. In the same year, she received the 3Package Deal from AFK, supporting her early choreographic development. In 2022, she created Yeye, co-produced by Sophiensaele with funding from the Berlin Senate for Culture. In 2023, she was commissioned by Ballhaus Naunynstraße to create Eventually Causing the Shake, which she performed throughout 2024 and 2025. Her practice is research driven, informed by somatic and movement based methodologies, including her background in Pilates, and is developed through residencies and interdisciplinary exchange. She has held residencies at Dansmakers Amsterdam, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Rote Fabrik, and Tanzhaus Zürich, among others.
www.loislalexander.com