Alexsa Durrans (b. Vancouver, Canada, 1994) is an artist working in the fields of performance, visual art and experimental dance. She creates site-specific movement landscapes and sculptural video installations by shifting movement into digital, site-specific and non theatrical environments, using already built infrastructures to explore visual hierarchies coded into bodies and spaces. She employs techniques of gestural choreographies and activates everyday technologies such as the iphone to articulate the nuances of the Post-Internet body.
She received an MFA from California Institute of the Arts and a BA from UCLA World Arts and Cultures. Alexsa’s choreography has been shown at Gattopardo, Los Angeles (2024), Centre national de la Danse, Paris (2022), Night Gallery, Los Angeles (2022) Murmurs Gallery, Los Angeles (2020), Pieter Performance Space, Los Angeles (2019), AALA Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2019) and Untitled Art Fair, Miami (2017). Her video work has been included in group exhibitions such as, You’re Gonna Love Tomorrow at Fellows for Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2024), The Banff Center for Arts and Creativity, Banff, Alberta (2023), and Tense Renderings at the Reef, Los Angeles (2022). She has taught workshops on her choreographic process at Performance Space New York (2024) Fellows of Contemporary Art (2024) and the MAK Center, Los Angeles (2022). She served as Special faculty at California Institute of the Arts (2023-2024), lectured at Harvard Theater Dance and Media (2023, 2024) and spoken on numerous panel conversations such as Brutally Early, hosted by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Klaus Biesenbauch (2020).