alexsa durrans

alexsa durrans https://alexsadurrans.com alexsa durrans Tue, 17 Feb 2026 20:44:43 +0000 https://alexsadurrans.com en Untitled page http://alexsadurrans.com/Untitled-page Tue, 17 Feb 2026 20:44:43 +0000 alexsa durrans 459168 ALEXSA DURRANS Production Coordination  ALEXSA DURRANS Production Coordination  hand http://alexsadurrans.com/hand Tue, 01 Jul 2025 05:51:41 +0000 alexsa durrans 457252 <img width="962" height="1722" width_o="962" height_o="1722" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/de01a90f5dff6bda80ca5f33bca400a8eec94e798204a5ff69eb1407c0d808d6/Screenshot-2025-07-01-at-9.02.44PM.png" data-mid="1412079" border="0" /> <img width="972" height="1730" width_o="972" height_o="1730" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/0944f5b0ba353b76cc1b8433b3a63bc0c5fc72c7af31f385e650fd85bf3c3595/Screenshot-2025-07-01-at-9.02.50PM.png" data-mid="1412080" border="0" /><img width="950" height="1706" width_o="950" height_o="1706" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/7a7497a5c989334ec2e96ff9ad3deef1be0963c3b899aa38e240598949ce5686/Screenshot-2025-07-01-at-9.03.08PM.png" data-mid="1412081" border="0" /> <img width="1042" height="1482" width_o="1042" height_o="1482" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/3867f12f572c4885b459d0c18a0008fa591b0c8cc75a81fdec099e3f20667418/Screenshot-2025-06-30-at-11.09.12PM.png" data-mid="1411977" border="0" /> Recital (Arena Tour) http://alexsadurrans.com/Recital-Arena-Tour Mon, 20 Jan 2025 19:36:41 +0000 alexsa durrans 455577 ← home Recital (Arena Tour) Performance, 18 minutes <img width="1682" height="980" width_o="1682" height_o="980" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/9d9b2bb840514658d5927daeedadc562428b5154dee4215615e2b5dfe89b9b2e/Screenshot-2024-07-07-at-7.42.17PM.png" data-mid="1392980" border="0" /> <img width="2824" height="1566" width_o="2824" height_o="1566" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/12d24970eb19621b3d138e308149c1ca03802e2698d1c36b1ecb816febc2b05e/Screenshot-2025-01-20-at-11.47.09AM.png" data-mid="1392981" border="0" /><img width="2148" height="1128" width_o="2148" height_o="1128" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/c4779bbe71c227a12a76cf558c7bba15ea55eab98c791dd91df525ab60aa78e8/Screenshot-2025-01-20-at-11.46.34AM.png" data-mid="1392982" border="0" /> Concept and Choreography by AMMA (Alexsa Miles Miles Alexsa) ← home Recital (Arena Tour) Performance, 18 minutes Concept and Choreography by AMMA (Alexsa Miles Miles Alexsa) Big day http://alexsadurrans.com/Big-day Fri, 14 Jun 2024 04:47:19 +0000 alexsa durrans 453351 ← home BIG DAY  Video installation, 7 minutes looping  Center for Integrated Media, California Institute of the Arts ← home BIG DAY  Video installation, 7 minutes looping  Center for Integrated Media, California Institute of the Arts the original grin http://alexsadurrans.com/the-original-grin Tue, 11 Jun 2024 20:41:16 +0000 alexsa durrans 453325 ← home The Original Grin Performance, 19 minutes Gattopardo Los Angeles, 2024 <img width="2978" height="1654" width_o="2978" height_o="1654" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/3354f8e242547171db804d640a4227b9e45e395473a77edcc1269897c1317b2c/Screenshot-2024-06-11-at-1.54.29PM.png" data-mid="1367213" border="0" /> <img width="2960" height="1656" width_o="2960" height_o="1656" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/2de7c26ef538ab84b717049b234f776192696dfcb7f061e735734b3048d3140f/Screenshot-2024-06-11-at-1.51.42PM.png" data-mid="1367210" border="0" /><img width="2902" height="1630" width_o="2902" height_o="1630" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/972ba321f2d7fae8a0e2a63e2454a5396dbeff3cdbc69ddf17a4eca7790bd624/Screenshot-2024-06-11-at-1.53.31PM.png" data-mid="1367212" border="0" /><img width="2958" height="1626" width_o="2958" height_o="1626" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/f7f6e28a4a6897e51e4bdaada5a821c4db652d4f9452ec89710a5f4fcb1a4dd6/Screenshot-2024-06-11-at-1.51.12PM.png" data-mid="1367209" border="0" /><img width="2504" height="1670" width_o="2504" height_o="1670" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/2350909278191968ada72d67b961ace4a86d61a4c0e63c0b84607192ed90a964/Screenshot-2024-06-11-at-1.52.32PM.png" data-mid="1367211" border="0" /><img width="2950" height="1628" width_o="2950" height_o="1628" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/f0aac2d39c089f4725729869754c8290c5afaae2620395d1d27c7a0a567155d2/Screenshot-2024-06-11-at-1.50.13PM.png" data-mid="1367208" border="0" /> Choreography & Direction by Alexsa Durrans Danced by Chantel Murphy  on the occasion of Gabriel Cohen’s solo exhibition “God, where are the eyes of a murderer?’ ← home The Original Grin Performance, 19 minutes Gattopardo Los Angeles, 2024 Choreography & Direction by Alexsa Durrans Danced by Chantel Murphy  on... Vestige of a Trace http://alexsadurrans.com/Vestige-of-a-Trace Wed, 23 Aug 2023 04:41:51 +0000 alexsa durrans 447048 ← home Vestige of a Trace Performance, 44 minutesCalifornia Institute of the Arts/ Night Gallery, 2022 <img width="3163" height="4742" width_o="3163" height_o="4742" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/5f0e0dd987fce995cce8fbb760e7be1a19ec9d6d7cf67d05d37e519eb16dfc4c/CIA_20220224_39612.jpeg" data-mid="1310149" border="0" />Listen for traffic, Stay the course, Nothing moves here, One (three) slowly crawl, Indicate to trace, Vestige of a traceVestige of a Trace identifies a nameless, mundane and languid routine of perpetually moving through space on vast expanses of concrete. Situated in two parking lots on two different evenings, three dancers negotiate their own muscle memories and consider the information they collect as processes of tracing. <img width="4742" height="3163" width_o="4742" height_o="3163" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/9e5a9a824a266d34c45f6e3fcb560a219cb2584eb4f7404eb657942b77f7904a/5_durrans_voat_2022_1.jpeg" data-mid="1310151" border="0" />Gridlocking and spanning patterns, created by the dancers’ rigorous work, speculate the way their movement is shaped and changed by the locations. Inching in waves across the sprawl of asphalt, Vestige of a Trace explores how sculpted space disperse, split, align and intersect the body. The dancers work to reveal that this landscape is in fact a chosen, constructed, carved and directed system of participation. <img width="4742" height="3163" width_o="4742" height_o="3163" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/54e830e59f38cbc852600a777679917e82d5eb4c79ce533d7750f9eb8e2e9716/CIA_20220224_40072-1.jpeg" data-mid="1310150" border="0" />                                                Choreography and Direction: Alexsa Durrans Dancers: Max Martin, Andrea Soto, Mady Thornquest Set Design and Dramaturgy: Amy Chiao Music & Sound Design: Max Jaffe Lighting Design: Violet Smith Costume Design: Nishtha Tyagi ← home Vestige of a Trace Performance, 44 minutesCalifornia Institute of the Arts/ Night Gallery, 2022 Listen for traffic, Stay the course, Nothing moves here,... console portraits http://alexsadurrans.com/console-portraits Wed, 23 Aug 2023 04:33:35 +0000 alexsa durrans 447047 ← home Console Portraits digital pigment prints on inkjet paper 20x11 Fellows of Contemporary Art (group exhibition ‘You’re Gonna Love Tomorrow), 2024 <img width="3200" height="4000" width_o="3200" height_o="4000" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/0b14bac330467bf8105af1dd50a70f59e2702a65759436980a5027e2e5b16938/20240207-9.jpg" data-mid="1367205" border="0" /> <img width="4000" height="2250" width_o="4000" height_o="2250" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/595aef3767e9ce53d2bda8eaaebdd04c6beb01c810aa1dabb1b85f0803230d19/20240207-10.jpg" data-mid="1367206" border="0" /> <img width="2520" height="1406" width_o="2520" height_o="1406" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/6112655dc4f8439c72d9cc846ea76709cac85ce1a97262dc6b0cd5e9b051b2f0/Screen-Shot-2023-07-13-at-7.40.06-PM.png" data-mid="1310147" border="0" /> <img width="2193" height="1225" width_o="2193" height_o="1225" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/cb9b393299dd82f2dc8a4ab1a07a71f6e93302c8300a41408bbe355593a45b38/Screen-Shot-2023-07-18-at-9.57.52-AM.png" data-mid="1310148" border="0" /><img width="2800" height="1542" width_o="2800" height_o="1542" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/769814c3ce14e4e8774c38eb05a0ba0b195baa5e5651f74a8bd2d024f125b1de/Screen-Shot-2023-08-22-at-9.58.16-PM.png" data-mid="1310152" border="0" /> ← home Console Portraits digital pigment prints on inkjet paper 20x11 Fellows of Contemporary Art (group exhibition ‘You’re Gonna Love Tomorrow), 2024 ... gesture console http://alexsadurrans.com/gesture-console Tue, 22 Aug 2023 18:18:10 +0000 alexsa durrans 447036 ← home Gesture, console.  Video 16 minutes. Banff Center for Arts and Creativity, 2023 <img width="3750" height="5000" width_o="3750" height_o="5000" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/b3bc63296b0e26e6f383223dc469fd1513ea4394143b749a65ce75f1be8e3c33/Alexsa_longex_6_web.jpg" data-mid="1310122" border="0" /> 9 Gestures that consider how the body can thrive.Cadence, splay, structure, perpetual, decay, edge, emergence, ineffable, culture. Using temporal wording to connect the ephemeral act of gesture to the metaphor of spoken language, Gesture, console considers a future body that thrives. In response to clinical measurements and data driven modes of capturing the body in anthropometric studies, the gestures in this work are influenced by notions of social dance practice within nightlife, sonic subcultures of rave music, and fictitious texts that skew the normative trajectory of our future. <img width="5000" height="4297" width_o="5000" height_o="4297" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/b32dd53172e2f91778a4a37f9c3cdd0bacc6ff8aed692235f31b0777aa386717/Alexsa_1_web.jpg" data-mid="1310123" border="0" /> Using collaging and subtle editing techniques, the video is split into 4 temporal frames, revealing slight delays and glitches that flourish into new possibilities of pathways and structures for the body. Rather than prescribing a future, the work aims to exercise possibility and rather than executing a notion of correctness, the work embraces imprecision as a mode to deviate to alternative possibilities of encountering the body in motion. <img width="5000" height="4733" width_o="5000" height_o="4733" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/44887d885c0c5b551a946f4da1ed84f6e8c43bc6f850b7b62962e7c8e892f1b7/Alexsa_3_web.jpg" data-mid="1310124" border="0" /> ← home Gesture, console.  Video 16 minutes. Banff Center for Arts and Creativity, 2023 9 Gestures that consider how the body can thrive.Cadence, splay,... movement carrying systems http://alexsadurrans.com/movement-carrying-systems Thu, 15 Jun 2023 16:33:15 +0000 alexsa durrans 444457 ← home <img width="5000" height="3333" width_o="5000" height_o="3333" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/bc5cedca51820a277db17f04624bc7533a9dbb86a1aa1ad6b86ea76ef6184fee/Copy-of-reorientations-133.jpeg" data-mid="1294901" border="0" />Movement Carrying Systems at MAK Center 2022. Dancer: Andrea Soto Photo: Tag Christof Movement Carrying Systems (MCS) is a research based movement workshop that inspects how we move our bodies in relation to spatial architectures (formal space, implied spatial hierarchies, crowds, other bodies & sentient beings). MCS considers how these interactions create, propose and perpetuate complex systems of knowledge making. How can we acknowledge and interrogate these tangled systems through the rigorous work of movement: gesture, posture and rhythm?Participants rest, talk, engage and move together, using each other as guiding posts and learning modules. The class explores movement in the body that quirks, glitches and side-tracks from embodied, or inscribed actions — a deviation from what is assumed for our bodies to do and participate in. No prior movement experience is required. Alexsa encourages a space for all folx to come and center their own practices while engaging with and encouraging the work and labor others bring into the space. This workshop has been taught at Hoover Haus (2022), California Institute for the Arts (2021) and at MAK Center as a part of their Reorientations Programming (2022).  ← home Movement Carrying Systems at MAK Center 2022. Dancer: Andrea Soto Photo: Tag Christof Movement Carrying Systems (MCS) is a research based movement... ZINE http://alexsadurrans.com/ZINE Tue, 28 Jun 2022 21:47:45 +0000 alexsa durrans 426771 ← home A Long Time A Slow Trust Zine <img width="1010" height="1066" width_o="1010" height_o="1066" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/508a2e1598116b8e9c585d089fe9c4e710be298eb5ece59626fbebcd97b6989f/Screen-Shot-2022-06-28-at-3.07.27-PM.png" data-mid="1203793" border="0" data-scale="50"/> A Long Time A Slow Trust Zine  2022 Archive of A Long Time A Slow Trust Performance May 11 2021 CLICK TO PURCHASE  <img width="1050" height="1070" width_o="1050" height_o="1070" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/10bea6fb4e26cac54d83354c0f5e0e88a25701120028f39a1e517a37147ff8bf/Screen-Shot-2022-06-28-at-2.52.41-PM.png" data-mid="1203799" border="0" data-scale="50"/> <img width="1038" height="1012" width_o="1038" height_o="1012" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/e4eed9286f9752988b02e276552ec1377b7ce52b1212d939c797c7a47b360d60/Screen-Shot-2022-06-28-at-2.52.32-PM.png" data-mid="1203800" border="0" data-scale="50"/> <img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1" style="width: 1px; height: 1px;"> <img width="996" height="1200" width_o="996" height_o="1200" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/f62b76db41abe903db37a7b9346e7b0ca3851c5555389d39dc12beedebc0fe95/Screen-Shot-2022-06-28-at-2.52.13-PM.png" data-mid="1203801" border="0" data-scale="50"/> ← home A Long Time A Slow Trust Zine A Long Time A Slow Trust Zine  2022 Archive of A Long Time A Slow Trust Performance May 11 2021 CLICK TO...