Lois Alexander - Being and Nothingness (working title)

With my research, I seek to articulate nonlinear, diasporic, and migratory forms of knowledge through the development of choreographic states. These states function as changeable landscapes where shifts arise through extended scores that rethink temporality, shift attention, and unsettle fixed conditions of viewing. During my residency, I will experiment with ways of orienting the body and, in doing so, hope to uncover how meaning is produced through movement.

During my residency at STUK, I will revisit my earlier work, Neptune (2020), and consider its choreographic material through my current questions surrounding memory and gaze. This will support the early research phase of a new work that investigates choreography as an evolving relation between body, perception, and environment. I am interested in exploring how choreography functions as an unstable terrain that is continuously being negotiated through the body. The residency will contribute to the dramaturgical development of my new work, Being and Nothingness (working title).

TEAM / CREDITS

Concept, performance: Lois Alexander
Artist Friend: Joy Mariama Smith
Dramaturgical Support: Julien Enzanza

Lois Alexander is a California 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.