A three-part performance project
Co-creator, performer (2023-)
Duet with poet Mary Paterson concerning deep time and prophecy. Together we explore relations between speech, text, bodily presence, and movement.
Part 2: score
score is preoccupied by impossible measurements and self-assessments.
score was presented on Monday 14 July at LADA, Live Art Development Agency in London, as part of Something Other Live: on ‘elasticity’ event of performance writing and works in progress. Next performance date: 28 Oct 2025, Nunhead, London.
Part 1: ancestor
ancestor imagines new relations. It draws attention to wishing, duration, and endurance. It was presented at the ‘Dance Poetry’ event, by Writers Kingston.
(Sound is muffled at the start of this clip of ancestor).
Cleopatra Has An Issue
New/old media composition (2022)
Cleopatra Has An Issue was created with Cleopatra Glithero for the digital publication Think Pieces, produced by the Institute of Advanced Studies at UCL. It was co-edited by then-postdoctoral research fellows Dr Lo Marshall and Alexandra Baybutt on the theme of ‘Complaint’. We invited contributions from those dealing with complaints or not expected to complain within the context of the university. Cleopatra Has An Issue is part of a triptych by Cleopatra Glithero, and was created to indicate the feelings of what it is to navigate digital bureaucracy. All Cleopatra wanted to do was update her records with Student Finance.
Something Other performance writing
Blinking to Hold in 10 ‘On Visions’ (2021)
Němaɲa / Not to let go in 9 ‘On Circularity’ (2020)
Ink Welling in 7 ‘On Correspondence‘ (2018)
Something Other is a web-based publication on performance writing curated by Diana Damian Martin, Maddy Costa and Mary Paterson.
New Thistles
Poem, New Thistles (2020)
New Thistles was broadcast on 30 May 2020, on Resonance FM / ‘Bears at a Picnic’ show, ‘PLANTASIA’ 9.30pm
Genus Classification by Altitude of Occurrence: Vertical series
The Vertical series was initiated by artist Moi Tran and Alexandra Baybutt, with Ria Samartzi (2013)
This performance is concerned with microscopic change and the spatiality of breath. It is an atmosphere of contemplation on the uncanny unfolding of the human body as an interior world affecting outer form.
It has been presented in various contexts including Vertical 6: CDS2018, a 2 hour durational performance, Chisenhale Dance Space, London. Alexandra Baybutt with Stephanie Felber. Co-existing alongside works from Magda Tuka and Dagmara Bilon.
Vertical 5: STL2016 was a 5 hour durational performance, St Lawrence Church, London. Alexandra Baybutt with composer and organist Huw Morgan presenting MELOS.
Vertical 4: LMS2015 | Vertical 3: MSD2015 | Vertical 2: D2015 | Vertical 1: HIB2013.
inability crew
Dramaturge, writer and performer (2014-16)
A project initiated by composer and choreographer Ivan Mijačević, in Köln, Germany. inability attempted to overcome the inability of meeting in space and time.
inability festival took place in 2014. Subsequent events, performances, installations and residencies were held in Maribor, Slovenia and in Köln in 2015 and 2016, supported by zzt, GT22, Catalyst Festival/MDK.
Bellyflop Mag
Contributor (2013), member, writer of reviews and blogs (2014-15)
Bellyflop was an online magazine for contemporary dance and performance in the UK that also curated events in London.
In 2013, I contributed a movement score Changing Positions as part of a symposium curated by Bellyflop called Cue Positions. It asked players to speak and move their sense of their position within the field of dance in London: 5 years ago, now, and 5 years hence.
Attune, Observe, Report
Movement analysis lecture-performances (2013)
Invited by curator Rebecca Bligh, I analysed 5 movement workshops, presenting my findings in the frame of the Bold Tendencies festival, London.
Invited by curator Donald Hutera, I performed in his GoLive! festival in response to several other performances in the festival.
The Value of Repose; Upend
Text-based sculptural objects (2011; 2012),
The Value of Repose (2012) was presented in the group exhibition and performance festival Bush Bazaar, London, with the support of Theatre Delicatessen. The Value of Repose was an homage to the ways the body repairs itself and the value of doing nothing.
Upend (2011), was presented in a group exhibition Equilibrium, in a gallery in east London. It explored inner sensations of unrest.
Acerage
Head-phone walking piece (2011)
Presented at the Lo-Fi Festival at Smoke Farm, a 360 acre former dairy farm, north of Seattle, USA. The theme was ‘Not to Scale.’ Acerage was made to be listened to walking in the grounds there. It overlaid aspects of Long Acre, Covent Garden and the ‘Devil’s Acre’ (nickname for a 19th century slum, Westminster) onto the rural farm land.
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