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Alexsa Durrans




Alexsa Durrans; Vestige of A Trace, 2022; 3 channel video installation with sound; 44 min; Choreography and Direction: Alexsa Durrans; Director of Photography and Editing: Wenxin Zho; Videography: Wenxin Zhou, Irene Gil Ramon, Poppy Miller; Dancers: Lena Martin, Andrea Soto, Mady Thornques; Set Design and Dramaturgy: Amy Chiao; Music & Sound Design: Max Jaffe; Lighting Design: Violet Smith; Costume Design: Nishtha Tyagi







Alexsa Durrans; Vestige of A Trace, 2022; 3 channel video installation with sound; 44 min; Choreography and Direction: Alexsa Durrans; Director of Photography and Editing: Wenxin Zho; Videography: Wenxin Zhou, Irene Gil Ramon, Poppy Miller; Dancers: Lena Martin, Andrea Soto, Mady Thornques; Set Design and Dramaturgy: Amy Chiao; Music & Sound Design: Max Jaffe; Lighting Design: Violet Smith; Costume Design: Nishtha Tyagi







Alexsa Durrans; Vestige of A Trace, 2022; 3 channel video installation with sound; 44 min; Choreography and Direction: Alexsa Durrans; Director of Photography and Editing: Wenxin Zho; Videography: Wenxin Zhou, Irene Gil Ramon, Poppy Miller; Dancers: Lena Martin, Andrea Soto, Mady Thornques; Set Design and Dramaturgy: Amy Chiao; Music & Sound Design: Max Jaffe; Lighting Design: Violet Smith; Costume Design: Nishtha Tyagi







Alexsa Durrans; Vestige of A Trace, 2022; 3 channel video installation with sound; 44 min; Choreography and Direction: Alexsa Durrans; Director of Photography and Editing: Wenxin Zho; Videography: Wenxin Zhou, Irene Gil Ramon, Poppy Miller; Dancers: Lena Martin, Andrea Soto, Mady Thornques; Set Design and Dramaturgy: Amy Chiao; Music & Sound Design: Max Jaffe; Lighting Design: Violet Smith; Costume Design: Nishtha Tyagi

 

                                                                                       

VESTIGE OF A TRACE


Inching in waves across a sprawl of asphalt, Vestige of A Trace explores how sculpted spaces disperse, split, align, and intersect the body. The three-channel video installation identifies a nameless, mundane, and languid routine of three dancers perpetually moving through space on vast expanses of concrete. The dancers negotiate their own muscle memories and consider the information they collect as processes of tracing, working to reveal that this landscape is in fact a chosen, constructed, carved, and directed system of participation. The cameras survey and archive the dancer’s gridlocking and spanning patterns. This multi-channel display speculates the way their movement is shaped and changed by the location and suggests the ways individual pathways synchronize and intersect with others.


BIO


Alexsa creates site specific movement assemblages and video works that act as sculptures and landscapes to engage viewers outside of the proscenium dance environment. In shifting movement into new lenses, her work explores visual hierarchies coded into our bodies. Alexsa’s work articulates traces, perpetuations and disruptions of embodiment by structuring particular modes of interacting with choreographed bodies. Her work is framed by relentless and enduring ecosystems created by video, stage design, text, and movement. Alexsa uses the tools of cross disciplinarity to provide a frame of reference to the body; a means to connect and reassemble ideas of how the body is activated.


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