Since 2004 I have performed professionally for several choreographers and visual artists in many spaces and sites in Europe and north America. Often this was in collaboration over the content, and required skills of creative improvisation, devising, audience-response and extremes of physical control. Here is a sample of projects and significant experiences:
Performer (2025)
Choreographer Heni Hale is currently engaged in a practice-based PhD through the University of Coventry, in connection to the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, the archive of which is held at Wellcome. I am one of several artist-researchers engaged in embodied practices with the archives and archival, field-note practices. We are presenting something in November 2025.
The Show
Performer, co-deviser (2018)
Artist Guida Miranda invited me to perform for an art film, The Show made for inclusion in the annual group exhibition, ‘Zimmer Frei’ in Hotel Mariandl, Munich. My role was as a kind of TV-host for an unknowable contest.
Gif(t)s for Borough Road
Movement artist (2018)
Curator Theresa Kneppers invited me to animate several paintings from the Borough Road Collection Archive to produce a series of GIFS. These kinaesthetic responses were informed by the images, the qualities of paint and the motion invited.
vague de corps
Performer, dancer (2017, 2018)
I performed in a quintet by choreographer Stephanie Felber. vague de corps was a site-based, audience-responsive performance that premiered at PATHOS Atelier in Munich, Germany. It was created through complex improvisational scores, typical of Felber’s work. In 2018, we re-staged the work for Labor Atelier, Munich.
Allusion to a body no longer present
Performer (movement, text, song) (2018)
I performed in a quartet for visual artists Tyler Eash and Sara Rodrigues. It premiered in February 2018 at The Swiss Church, and was presented at St Giles Cripplegate church, London. A film of the performance was screened at Kunstraum gallery, London in March 2019.
In A Mosaic World; Invisible Space – viaggio nelle città’invisibili
Choreographer and performer of solos in group works Invisible Space – viaggio nelle città’invisibili (2016), and In A Mosaic World (2018)
Theatre director Karim Galici invited me for two of his site-based, promenade, sensorial-theatre productions in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy. These took place in the botanical gardens, an old tobacco factory and in the streets.
Whispers
Performer for camera and live audience (2018)
I was invited to step into the end part of choreographers Sophie Arstall and Elizabeth Barker’s research and development process of Whispers, for their project Average Height Ladies.
Palimpsest
Performer (2014)
I performed Palimpsest for choreographer Mark Carberry, in collaboration with John Greenwood and John Galvin at Dance Limerick, Ireland, 2014. The audio-visual installation included subtle movement corresponding with projected footage in almost imperceptible ways.
Read Jeffrey Gormly’s response here
Structurealist; Altra Motion Quartz
Interpreter, performer (2013-14)
I generated movement in response to visual artist Mette Sterre‘s sculptural costume works. I performed Structurealist in several UK and London galleries and theatres over 2013/14, and the film has been screened in various spaces. I also performed Altra Motion Quartz at the Jerwood Space, and performed Structurealist in Crystal Mette & the Fictions at Central St Martins.
Rivercities research; artist in residence research
Performer-researcher (2012, 2014)
I worked with choreographer and researcher Carolyn Deby/sirenscrossing as a creative performer in site-based projects in London in 2012 and 2014. Sites include the River Lee, UCL Geography department when Deby was artist in residence, and the streets of Bloomsbury.
under
Performer, guide, co-deviser (2010)
I performed with Seattle-based interdisciplinary performance company Manifold Motion in a site-based production concerning the life and terrors of fungi and mold.
alexandrabaybutt.co.uk 