alexx shilling is a movement artist, filmmaker, writer and educator whose deeply collaborative, multidisciplinary performances explore states of awareness and prioritize the body as the primary research site for invigorating memory and investigating transformation. Her practice leaps between ecstatic expressions of borrowing and becoming, and dances born from ecological fieldwork, sometimes at sites of atrocity. Original works have been presented in New York, Southern California, Germany, Poland, at the American Dance Festival and at numerous film festivals, including Dance on Camera as a recipient of the Works-In-Progress Production Grant. She has received funding from organizations including the California Arts Council, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Center of Cultural Innovation, Asylum Arts and the Foundation for Contemporary Art along with awards including the Wallis Annenberg Helix Fellowship (2016-17), David Shneer New Jewish Culture Grant, and the CHIME Mentorship Grant. As a performer, she has most notably worked with Victoria Marks and Richard Rivera/Physual, and most recently with Mimi Yin/NUUM Collective, Daniel Miramontes, Keith Johnson and Diane McCarthy. DANCE BAND is the current vehicle for collaborative projects created with Laurel Jenkins and Sarah Leddy

As an educator, shilling has held faculty positions at Loyola Marymount University, Cal State Long Beach, UCLA, The Wooden Floor and Peridance. She co-founded the popular Los Angeles-based dance series, Hi, Solo (newly re-invigorated in New Jersey), the Gold Collective and Gold Series. With Quintan Wikswo, she co-directed the interdisciplinary company FIELDSHIFT | FURTHER (Los Angeles and New York, 2011-2015) and with Ann Robideaux, the site-specific dance company ann and alexx make dances (New York, 2004-2010).

Shilling received her MFA in Choreography from UCLA’s Department of World Arts & Culture/Dance, BS in Dance from Skidmore College and holds teaching certifications in Open Source Forms, Pilates, Yoga, Simonson and Fleming Technique. She values her ongoing collaborative processes with DANCE BAND, filmmaker and photographer Taso Papadakis, and musician/composer Julio Montero.