Lisa Alexander

LIVE FROM HOME

Founding Producer/Curator, London and Athens
A collaborative platform for artworks, projects and events investigating social agency and the translocal
Due to launch in spring/summer 2011. http://www.thisislivefromhome.org

Dubito²

Durational work created for LOCUS SOLUS, BENAKI Museum, Pireos Street Annexe, Athens, 24 Sept – 10 Oct 2010

performed by Lisa Alexander and Vassiliki Dimou

Travelling Ideas: An (In-)complete Manifesto

Curator and Producer with Gigi Argyropoulou
Performance Matters Launch, Club Row Gallery, London, April 2010
The 1st incarnation of this durational installation/exhibition.

Participating artists: : Ania Bas, Mark Caffrey, Elena Capriolo, Hester Chillingworth, Ismini Chliova-Bitzani, Herve Constant, Maria Conte, Robert Cook, Vassiliki Dimou, Charlei Fox, Giuseppina Francia, Konstantina Georgelou, Ria Hartley, Steve Harvey, Claire Hind, Simon Hyde, Bettina John, Jaime Leme, Irini Karayannopoulou, Antigoni Katsadima, Rania Kelaiditi, Paul King, Rachel Lois Clapham, Claire MacDonald, Siobhan McCauley, Eleonora Melzi, Jane Munro, Cathy Naden, Tamarin Norwood, Vasilis Noulas, Terry O'Connor, Rossella Placuzzi, Efronsini Protopapa, Alan Reed, Philip Stanier, Manolis Tsipos, Paula Van Beek, Stefania Zampatti. MORE

Night Shift Drifts: Mis-tours

Participating artist, PSi 15, Zagreb, Croatia, 24-28 June, 2009

A series of 'mis-tours' of the city of Zagreb to expose some of the ignored, undiscovered and obscure sights and personalities of the city, its recent pasts and encountered presents.

Story Surgery

Solo one-on-one performance/participatory work on the nature of memory, reprise and intimate exchange enacted at:

WRITING ENCOUNTERS, Space between words, York, 11-13 Sept 2008
WHITSTABLE BIENNALE, Whitstable, 28 June-1 July, 2008
INTIMACY across visceral & digital performance festival at Goldsmiths, The Albany, LABAN, December, 2007
The Banquet Room, Candid Arts, May, 2007
Toynbee Studios, London, March, 2007

I can’t find you and you’ve got the things I’d often leave unspoken

3 performers enact a dialogue with you and katabasis...remembrance and forgetting...in the home...in society at large...versions of the truth...the weight of an individual's life, breath, presence, memories, self.

People Show, London, 11-12 June, 2007

Conceived and directed by Lisa Alexander

DanceforRadio

Choreographed 5-track sound work for RESONANCE FM, 2002

A sound work created via choreography, using different acoustic spaces and microphones. Performed and recorded at The Whispering Gallery, St. Paul’s Cathedral, Greenwich Foot Tunnel, Clissold Park and The Shakespeare Public House, London. In addition to these 4 site-specific locations/recordings, a live-mix was created by Patrick McGuinley during an on-air performance in RESONANCE FM’s studio for the Framework show (13/12/02)

24hrs in Green Lanes

Dance film, video, 4.30 minutes
Northern Exposure Dance Festival, The Bull Arts Centre, London, 2001

Dance film inspired by the 24 hour culture of Turkish and Greek-Cypriot area of Green Lanes, North London, filmed in and around a Turkish café over a 24 hour period

Director/Choreographer: Lisa Alexander

Untitled 1 and Untitled 2

Openlook International Dance Festival, St Petersburg, RUSSIA, 2001

A performance/group action in 2 parts:
1. A site-specific, durational performance at street level
2. A live interior installation
These 2 works were created during a 2 week residency

Artistic director/workshop leader: Lisa Alexander
Video: Simon Hyde

Cat & Mutton Bridge E5

Dance film, video, 3 x 1 minute
Dance on Screen Festival, The Place Theatre and Dance Film Forum, Chisenhale Dance Space, London, 2000

3 versions of a single-take chase sequence

Direction/Choreography: Lisa Alexander

Dancer: Susan McFadden

Camera: Steve Folorunsho

Editor: Simon Hyde

OTHER PERFORMANCES

Gratefulness

Performer/Voice
Remote text performance conceived and written by Matthew Goulish
10 Performances, Beyond Text, Roehampton University, 26 November, 2009 Image: Christa Holka

"Gratefulness contemplates the ways that time passes, and in passing takes the self or its traces with it. This remote text performance, written for the 10 Performances in 10 sets of 10 lines each gives thanks to and for the other people whose attentions allow us to maintain a sense of ourselves, whose voices sometimes become our own." Matthew Goulish

Farewell Stairwell

Performer, Directed by Hannah Bruce, Mall Road, Hammersmith, London, supported by Crying Out Loud. A devised performance for an audience of 5 based on the biography of a house and the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, 2005, http://hannahbruce.org/farewell_stairwell.html

Image: Sarah Dixon

Mine

Performer, Jane Munro Dance, Dance on Screen festival, The Place Theatre, London, 2001

Sweet Things

Performer, Jane Munro Dance, Chats Palace, London, 2001

Dress / Shift

Dancer, Jane Munro Dance at Theatre of Memory Theatre of Myth, The Plunge Club 24 hour Live Art event, London, Curated by Rene Eyre, 2000

Image: Slater King

The Last Supper

Performer, Director/Photographer: Alison Jackson, Holborn Studios, Central Saint Martin’s and Royal College of Art, London, 1997