Alexa Wilson presents Weg: A-Way
WEG: A-WAY By Alexa Wilson
weg: German, adj / noun, meaning away or path
NZ Tour 2011:
Auckland: Tempo, Q Theatre (Loft), 305 Queen St: 8th Oct, 9pm, $20
Christchurch: The Body Festival, The Open Stage- Hagley Community College, 510 Hagley Ave: 11th/12th Oct 7pm, $20/15conc (www.dashticket.co.nz or 0800 327 484)
Dunedin: Rice and Beans Gallery, 127 Lower Stuart St, 14th Oct, 8pm, Koha
The Body Festival is thrilled to present one of one of New Zealand's most innovative contemporary dance artists. Weg A-way is a visual feast of fiercely playful, ritualised performance art. Dance, live music, and video installation take the viewer on an interactive journey through the mind and body, exploring the ghosted objectified subject and reflecting the self as other as a workshop in self-exploitation.
Features 10 Musicians: (NZ) Daniel Satele, Sam Hamilton, Addison Course (live), Sky Bear, Nathan Taare, Moppy (live), Alexa Wilson (Berlin) Will Gresson, Veronica Mota, Ellen Schneider.
'Weg A-Way is shaman magic The dancing sections were exquisite and gorgeously articulated Alexa encourages others in their power to resist and subvert (Foucault references lol, lol). This piece is really about self-empowerment, a softy at heart, Alexa is actually ..? I dunno, what do you think.. make some positive social, political change in this messed up world?' Val Smith, Theatreview, 11 March 2011
Please Note: Contains nudity and adult themes
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Alexa Wilson has spent over ten years as an experimental choreographer, dancer and video / performance artist, recently returning to New Zealand after nearly two years living in Berlin.
Renowned for her cutting edge performances which are performance art-influenced, Alexaâs work has been acknowledged numerous times throughout her career, most recently as winner of 4 Auckland Fringe Festival Awards for Weg A-Way including Best Dance, Best Dance Performer, Auckland Arts Festival Award and The Fringe Award. In 2009 she won the Tup Lang Scholarship for Toxic White Elephant Shock and in 2004 Best New Work by an Emerging Contemporary Choreographer by the New Zealand Listener for Magic Box.
She received a Goethe Institute Scholarship to study German in Berlin in 2009 and worked with Anna Macrae during a residency at Impuls Tanz in Vienna the same year and made experimental films and performance works in Berlin until the end of 2010.
Alexa has made over twenty interdisciplinary performances and video works and is one of fifty contemporary NZ artists interviewed in Gareth Shute's book Insights: New Zealand Artists Talk About Creativity. She has danced for many choreographers inc Douglas Wright, taught and written extensively.
Her works are online at www.alexawilson.blogspot.com
