alexx shilling is a movement artist, filmmaker, writer and educator whose deeply collaborative, multidisciplinary performances 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 field work, often at sites of atrocity.

Her original works have been presented nationally and internationally including the Jewish Museum (Munich), Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, Dance New Amsterdam (DNA), Bushwick Starr, Danspace Project, REDCAT, Eldridge Street Synagogue, Elinor Bunin Monroe Theatre (Lincoln Center), BAAD!, Pieter Performance Space, ARC Pasadena, Electric Lodge, Highways Performance Space, SOKA Performing Arts Center, the Hammer Museum, and the American Dance Festival, as well as warehouses, parks, bathrooms, fire escapes and historical Lightships on the Hudson River. As a collaborating performer, she has most notably danced with Victoria Marks (2010-2021), Richard Rivera/Physual (2002-2010), Alan Danielson, Artichoke Dance, Laurel Jenkins, Ros Warby, Ariane Anthony, Alison D’Amato, Rebecca Pappas, Kevin Williamson, DaEun Jung, Christine Suarez, Mimi Yin and Sarah Leddy. Currently, she is dancing with NUUM Collective and in the works of Keith Johnson and Kendra Portier/BAND.

Shilling returned to the East Coast from Los Angeles in 2021, where she previously taught at Loyola Marymount University, Cal State Long Beach, UCLA, and The Wooden Floor. Shilling co-founded the popular Los Angeles-based dance series, Hi, Solo, 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). She received her MFA in Choreography from UCLA’s Department of World Arts & Culture/Dance, Bachelor’s degree in Dance from Skidmore College, and is certified to teach Pilates, Yoga, Fleming Technique and Open Source Forms.