dance — alexis moh

a space to grieve, Oct 2021, Public Assistants studio

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Drawing from lex’s Korean ancestry and collaborator Eriq Robinson's Black ancestry, a space to grieve was a performance, installation, and grief ritual, for we who have been removed from our indigenous rituals (via diaspora, cultural colonization, imperialism, historical erasure and genocide) as a suggested practice for processing and honoring grief in a society that systematically normalizes murder and ecocide.

Above are pages of the zine made as the performance’s program interspersed with stills from the show. Link to the full performance. Special thanks to City Artist Corps grant for funding and Public Assistants for hosting.

Spider Moth Butterfly choreography and performances, 2018-2019, Mexico City & Guadalajara

Diegetic full moon ritual from lex’s debut narrative feature, Spider Moth Butterfly

intro sequence for Spider Moth Butterfly, featuring solo improvisation by lex, in character, with edit-in accompaniment of cast in group movement score

lex solo in character for Spider Moth Butterfly

Collaborations with Eiko Otake, 2015-2019, various

lex began working with dancer Eiko Otake as a student at Wesleyan. Their dance films and video installation collaborations for Eiko’s, A Body in Places, have been shown at Danspace Project, Dance for Camera Film Festival, Anthology Film Archives, the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, River To River Festival, and Portland Institute of Contemporary Art.

Their performances together have been presented by the Cathedral, Temple University, and American Dance Festival.

The Duet Project: distance is malleable

Lightly edited archival footage of an excerpt from this performance at American Dance Festival (July 2019)

A Body in the East Village, 2016 (featured in Dance on Camera Festival 2017)

Eiko in the Cathedral, 2016

A Body with Water: Video Installation, River To River Festival, Governors' Island, NYC

A Body on Wall Street, River To River Festival 2016, NYC

A Body in a Station: Fulton Center, River To River Festival 2015, NYC