Friday, October 18, 2013

Portfolio/Resume

Curriculum Vitae for Alexa Wilson


Mission Statement:

I am committed to working across the disciplines of performance art, film, dance, writing and theatre in a questioning way, integrating political awareness and notions of community worldwide.

Qualifications/Training:

2013: Diploma in Medizinische Ganzkörpermassage (Medicine Full Body Massage), Winkels Academie Berlin.
2012: Pg Dip Fine Art with Transart Institute based in Berlin/NYC, accredited Plymouth University, UK.
2008: Completed an MA in Film Production, majoring in Screenwriting from The University of Auckland.
2000: Graduated from Unitec with a Bachelor of Performing and Screen Arts in Contemporary Dance.
1997: Completed a B.A with double major in Film, TV & Media Studies and Women’s Studies from The University of Auckland. 

Awards/Scholarships:

2012: Creative NZ Funded to study Post-Graduate Fine Art with Transart Institute (Berlin/NYC).
2011: Winner of 4 Auckland Fringe Festival Awards 2011 including Auckland Arts Festival Award.
2009: Goethe Institute scholarship to study German for 2 months in Berlin May-June 09 at level A2.
2008: Tup Lang Award (via Creative NZ) for Emerging choreographers in NZ and to support new work.
2005: Mine:d om Te Whau, a site specific on Unitec dance students- “Best of Dance 2005” in NZ Listener
2004: Magic Box- “Best New Work by Emerging Contemporary Choreographer 2004” in NZ Listener.
1997: Winner of Gold medal in Tae Kwon Do North Island Championships, New Zealand.

Performance work In Publications:

Interviewed as contemporary NZ artist in Gareth Shute's book Insights: NZ Artists Talk About Creativity.
Work from 'Acquistions 06' in Michelle Powell's book Touch Compass: Celebrating Integrated Dance
Contemporary Performance Almanac 2013, Published in NYC.

Writing Experience:

- Theatre of Ocean, First book to be published in 2015.

*I have written dozens of essays via my BA, BPSA, MA, PGDip Fine Art over many years and marked many essays as a teacher at M.I.T (Auckland, NZ) over 7 years lecturing in Film Theory in the Media and Communication Studies Department.

2012: Last Assignment Transart Institute First year PG Dip Fine Art research written element http://www.transart.org/wilsona/files/2012/06/Alexa-Wilson_Final-Written-Element_First-year.pdf
2008: Last Assignment for MA in Film Production 'Seeing Sex' paper on film 'Irreversible' http://www.transart.org/wilsona/files/2012/06/Research-Irreversible-essay.pdf
2011: Published in Rem Magazine, 2 Short pieces of Writing, July 2011 Issue, online at http://issuu.com/remmagazine
2004: Published also in Danz Quarterly NZ http://danz.org.nz/sidestep.php?article_id=142&type_id=2
2003: Published also in Danz Quarterly NZ http://danz.org.nz/sidestep.php?article_id=97&type_id=2
Performance/Dance Experience
Future 2015
- Red Gate Residency, Beijing China, 2014 as part of Extraordinary Aliens.
- Month of Performance Art - Berlin “Anthology” as a collaboration with NZ based Korean performance artist Samin Son. 
- Publishing “Theatre of Ocean
- “Extraordinary Aliens” full length video to tour film festivals.
- “The Status of Being” German tour.
- Application to the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna for a PhD in practice. 

2014: 
- Choreographed on Footnote Dance Company for NZ Tour a work called The Status of Being, Europe tour 2015.
- Star/Oracle of Delphi presented in Tempo, Auckland's Festival of Dance and Body Festival, Christchurch.
- Star/Oracle of Delphi presented in fine art gallery's Art Space as part of To&Fro residency with Amelia Hitchcock, Auckland and Physics Room for the Body Festival, Christchurch.
- Star/Oracle of Delphi, Volksroom Brussels, Poznan Design Festival Poland 2014.
Star/Oracle of Delphi, 100 Grad Berlin Festival 2014, Sophiensaele Theatre.
2013 -Pitching at Ada Studio for Extraordinary Aliens in AUSUFERN Festival Berlin to tour Europe 2014. 
- Star/Oracle of Delphi, International Triennial of Extended Art Media, INVENTIA INCLUSIVA, Belgrade, Serbia
- Star/Oracle of Delphi, http://reh-kunst.de Reh Kunst Gallerie, Berlin.
Extraordinary Aliens (live version)- Month of Performance Art Berlin.
- Star/Oracle of Delphi, Center for Performance Research New York City, Spring Movement Season, G30 Gallery, Berlin MPA-B, marathon evening MPA-Berlin.
-Performed with Geheimagentur/Random People in Hamburg's "Aktionen // Attraktionen" - "Actions // Attractions" event at the Hamburger Dom, collaboration with Mark Harvey on his Venice Biennale work.
- Burning Student Loans project, part of video for Extraordinary Aliens the film version, Auckland, NZ.
2012:- Performed for Linda Montano as one of her band 'The Glandettes', Jack, Brooklyn, NYC
-Performed Yoga Power Centres Series in NYC, Montreal, Berlin, Frankfurt. Live Sacri$Body in Brooklyn Artspace, NYC.
-Performed The Star in Ada Studio's 10x10 Series, Berlin & at Leonhardi Kulturprojecte in Frankfurt.
-Performed Oracle of Delphi, Leonhardi Kulturprojecte, show 'Slowing of the light', Frankfurt.
-Show Pony, collaboration with Nisha Madhan New Performance Festival, Aotea Centre, Auckland, NZ.
Weg: A-Way (Winner 4 Auckland Fringe Awards 2011) presented at Tempo '11, Body Festival '11 Chch, Rice and Beans Gallery Dunedin, Enjoy Gallery Wellington, Audio Foundation, Auckland, NZ.
Dancer for Anna Bate, So Fake its Real, Short n Sweet, Auckland Town Hall, NZ.
2011: Produced and choreographed for Millionaire PM- a political event series (trilogy) at Golden Dawn 2011, Auckland, NZ.
Dancer for Anna Bate, So Fake its Real, Short n Sweet, Old Folks Association, Auckland NZ.
Dancer at Cassette # for Sick Disco, Auckland NZ.
Weg A-Way, Toxic White Elephant Shock, Heartksnow, Body of Text, all in NZ Film Archive collection.
Weg: A-Way (Winner 4 Auckland Fringe Awards 2011), Auckland Fringe Festival, Galatos Bar.
2010:  -Berlin performance of solo work in 'Stack'- a collaboration with other artists in K-Salon Gallerie. 
Die Totezone: Collaboration with performance artist Cat Ruka, online Upstage101010, Berlin
2009: Polar Pop- Collaborated on a duet with Tallulah Holly-Massey at Gallerie Freudenreich, Berlin.
-  Collaborated with NZ choreographer/dancer Anna Macrae in a Turbo residency at Impuls Tanz in Vienna.
Toxic White Elephant Shock, CNZ funded residency/show with Tup Lang Award: Corban Estate/Mau, Auckland, NZ.
Skype Collaboration with Cellulite Rose at Artspace, Auckland, NZ, from Vienna.
Produced Toxic White Elephant Shock, CNZ funded.
Choreographed launch to the first ever Auckland Fringe Festival, alongside director Stephen Bain, NZ.
2006: -Nemesis: Trial By Love as invited Guest Choreographer for the Unitec S.P.A.S.A for Year 2 dance.
The Golden Rulz as part of the group show The Collection, Auckland, via Rifleman Productions.
Sequintial Roadkill for Touch Compass Dance Company Acquistions 06, Auckland Town Hall.
- Awards Judge: A member of the awards panel for Tempo, Auckland's Festival of Dance 2006.
2005: No Such Place- dancer for choreographer Lisa Densem (Berlin based), Wellington, NZ. 
Mine:d- omTe Whau: Site Specific performance on Year 2 dance students at Unitec/prior Carrington Hospital, Auckland NZ.
2004: Magic Box for Late Night Choreographers for Tempo, Auckland's Festival of Dance 04. Producer LNC 2004.
2003: - Alexa Wilson [shut up and] dance, a solo work performed at Late Night Choreographers 1, Tempo 03
Seven Headly Spins, a Creative NZ funded 6 week dance/acting workshop.
2002: - Inland, dancer for Douglas Wright's national tour, NZ. 
-Weather Vain People- dancer for Malia Johnston as part of Fracture, Kenneth Myers Centre, NZ.  
-Noah’s Artifice, choreography, Creative Communities funded and Axess Dance Collective show Reign.
2001: -save/dance choreography toured from Auckland-Wellington and Melbourne with various group shows.
- kill/dance, collaboration in difficult company toured Auckland, Wellington, Melbourne Fringe, Dancehouse Great Escapes Festival.
2011-2001: written a number of critiques and reviews for Danz Quarterly, www.yellingmouth.blogspot.com, www.theatreview.org.nz, Danznet.

Film Experience
2013-2001: All live performances since graduating from Unitec SPASA containing video projections.
2013: -Extraordinary Aliens short version screening in BorderBody, Spain and Poland.
- Performer in Gabriel White's feature Film "Oracle Drive", screened NZ International Film Festival.
2012: Video projects filmed as part of post graduate study with Transart Institute a series called Sacri$Body.
2011: Tutor at Unitec's School of Performing and Screen Arts 1st year 'Moving Image with live choreography' project.
- NZ Film Archive catalogues various works including Weg A-Way, Toxic White Elephant Shock, Heartsnow, Body of Text.  
- Shortlisted for NZ Fresh shorts/NZFC: Awesome Night Out.
- Weg: A-Way edit: NZ Video collection of performance artists in a Copenhagen curation by Chris Hewitt.
2010: Heartsknow, video, filmed, directed, performed Berlin.
-Body of Text, video, shot, directed Beelitz south of Berlin.
2009: Choreographed for NZ director Kezia Barnett's music video of Anika Moa's song 'Wise men say', NZ.
- Performed in Elena Doyle's award winning short film Meniscus.
2008: - Our Passion and The Megaphone, short films directed and filmed during MA in Film Production.
2008-2001: Film theory guest lecturer at MIT Auckland – including gender, post-colonial and psychoanalysis theory plus marking essays.
2006: - Goldenhorse (band) in a music video  (choreographer) for the single “Don’t wake me up.” 
2005: - Worked in Art Department on Helena Brook's short film which screened at Cannes Nothing Special.
2003: - Danger, video performance funded by Creative Communities and performed many venues (NZ film archive)
2002: -Woodenhead, dancer in Florian Habicht’s first feature film. 

Teaching Dance/Film Employment
2013: Teaching dance workshops through Osho Active Meditation Centre, Berlin.
2012: Taught independent week long workshops in Auckland and Wellington in 'Movement Integration with Performance Art' at Pitt Street Methodist church hall and Thistle hall.
2011: Tutor at Unitec's School of Performing and Screen Arts 1st year 'Moving Image with live choreography' project and workshops with 3rd dance students. 
2008: Taught dance to disabled teenagers/children through an organisation called Starjam, NZ.
2008-2001: Film theory guest lecturer at MIT Auckland – including gender, post-colonial and psychoanalysis theory plus marking essays.
2006: Nemesis: Trial By Love as invited Guest Choreographer for the Unitec S.P.A.S.A for Year 2 dance.
2006-2005: Interdisciplinary Performance tutor at Unitec for 3rd dance students and guest choreographer Y2
-Guest tutor at The University of Auckland in the Dance Studies for choreography.
2005: Mine:d- omTe Whau: Site Specific performance on Year 2 dance students at Unitec/prior Carrington Hospital. 


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