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2009 Inspirations: Centre Pompidou's retrospective of female video and perfomance artists from the 60s to the 80s
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Alexa Wilson has been an experimental choreographer, dancer, video artist, writer and teacher for 10 years in New Zealand. She made a work called Toxic White Elephant Shock early 2009, which was a Creative NZ funded residency with Mau Dance Company and won part of the Tup Lang Scholarship for emerging choreographers in NZ in 2008. She received a Goethe Institute Scholarhship to study german in Berlin for 2 months in 2009 and collaborated with Anna Macrae during a Turbo residency at Impuls Tanz 09, Vienna. She performed a duet in Neukölln, Berlin with Tallulah Holly-Massey in August 09. She has made over 20 interdisciplinary performances and video works within NZ and Australia and won the title “Best New Work by an Emerging Contemporary Choreographer” in NZ Listener in 2004 for Magic Box among other awards. She co-initiated and produced the later annually funded emerging choreographic platform/collective Late Night Choreographers in Auckland in 2004 and since then has mentored, created commissioned choreographies for different company's and institutions in NZ including Touch Compass and written many reviews of dance. She has danced for NZ choreographers Douglas Wright, Lisa Densem, Vicky Kapo and Malia Johnston and danced in Florian Habicht's cult feature film Woodenhead. She has taught Interdisciplinary choreography and guest choreographed at Unitec's School of Performing and Screen Arts in Auckland for 2 years and taught film theory at M.I.T in Auckland since 2001. She is one of 50 contemporary NZ artists interviewed in Gareth Shute's recent book Insights: New Zealand Artists Talk About Creativity. She has a BA in Film/Media Studies and Women's Studies and a BPSA in Contemporary Dance. She a PGDipArts in Screen Production at The University of Auckland, majoring in Screenwriting. The Megaphone and Our Passion are 2 short films from her MA in Film Production made in response to global warming. She is planning to study an MA SODA at Berlin's University of Art in 2010.
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