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dance film.
Turn Signal
A detour away from city limits towards desert winds and rugged terrain, the dancer ventures through color grades of gender exploration and movement-centered introspection.
Under the Tracks
Collaboration with Alia Swersky & Roel Seeber
Edited by Alexander Olivieri
Constructed between 1911 and 1917, the Ballard Locks connects the Puget Sound to Seattle’s upstream lakes. It was originally operated and led by engineer Hiram Chittenden of the US Army Corp, from whom it now gets its name the Ballard Hiram Chittenden Locks. Each year, 40,000 ships pass through the locks that separate the fresh water lakes from the salt water ways of the Puget Sound. In this site-specific work, three dancers explore the line between the past and the present. They slide, scrape and scour the ledge that overlooks the intersection of Seattle's salt and fresh water systems.
Ropes and Rocks - Trailer
Collaboration with Roel Seeber and Olivia Sander
Performed by Roel Seeber & Olivia Sander
Filmed and Edited by Alexander Olivieri
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Collaboration with Roel Seeber and Sarah Choi
Filmed by Alexander Olivieri
Sève
Directed by Alexander Olivieri
Performed by Gildas Lemonnier
The time will come, you will leave places that feel like home, losing people and parts of yourself that you love. Just like a tree losing its leaves, sap seeping from its center, you shed your own skin. Only so you can keep growing, and let this new essence flow from within. You surrender to pain and let go, and everything you let go - comes back to you. Never left, was never lost. Alive in this beautiful dance that only you can feel.
Respire-Repeat
Filmed and Edited by Alexander Olivieri
co-choreographed by Alexander Olivieri and Alia Swersky
Through reflection and refraction, starkly contrasted forms explore rhythm, tension and breath in togetherness.
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Directed and Performed by Alexander Olivieri
Movement & Costume collaboration with
Alia Swersky
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Tracing the tethers of resistance and reflection, the body explores its complex reel of identities. What gets concealed and what gets revealed?
AVIFAUNA
In collaboration with Cameo Lethem
Choreography by Alexander Olivieri
Inspired by the black feathered raptors of the Pacific Northwest, the film explores contemporary dance forms as a language describing these birds' cohabitations of our urban landscapes.
The Boards
In collaboration with Roel Seeber
Filmed & Edited by Alexander Olivieri
Choreographed by Roel Seeber
A series of seven vertical dance performances layered with choreographed and painted landscapes of acrylic, cardboard and the imagination of Roel Seeber.
Marble and Mallet
Choreographed by Alexander Olivieri
Filmed and Edited by Sarah Choi
With light and shadow, both cinematographer and performer play sculptors of the moving image to speculate the remnants of separation and isolation.