Galleries // Community Arts Residencies and Ongoing Projects
- Hope Elephants Murals, 2013
- Community Art Show // Pop Up Gallery, 2013
- Sweet Tree Arts, Community Arts Projects and Mentorship, 2013
- Saturday Studio at The Rockland Rec. Center, 2012
- Camden Philosophical Society, 2012
- Follow the Shirts!! Public Art Installation in Rockland
- Dance Work and Community Festivals, 2010-present
- Theatrical Curtain for Triskelion Arts: Fabric Assemblage, Spring 2012
- Meridian Gallery Choreographer-in-Residence, November 2011
- Photography Portfolio
- Sugar Miniatures & Cake Decor
- Patterson High School, Community artist residency Fall 2010-Spring 2011
- Dr. Rayner Browne Academy, Integrating Community Arts. 2010-2011
- AmeriCorps site: Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, Takoma Park Fall 2010-Summer 2011
- Endor Gardens Lakeside Art Camp, Summer 2010
The Dance Exchange is hosting INSPIRE, a Youth Internship Program supported by Maryland Multi-cultural Youth Centers. In this six-week summer intensive, participants will gain leadership skills, engage in the community and make art in the local environment. This project is led by Wayles Haynes, the Youth Programs Coordinator and Lead Artist of the Teen Exchange at the Dance Exchange. I am a supporting artist offering workshops in art making, community engagement, video and photography
Photos is this gallery are from day one workshop in developing art making and designing activities for community engagement. Facilitation and photos by Alexis.
Inspire is a young adult internship program involving individual mentoring of participants as they develop skills in community engagement, project management, communications and movement based art-making. This multi-layered project results in various outcomes from personal achievement to facilitating public discourse and art-making around shared spaces and ideas. Participants will learn about the many facets of the Dance Exchange from artistry to administration and develop their own practice in how to engage a community around concept-based making. This will come in three main conduits; personal art-making, mentor observed group work and community engagement. ~
Wayles Haynes, Lead Artist and Adjunct Artist with the Dance Exchange
Youth Arts Night at the Dance Exchange.
Teen Exchange hosted Youth artists at Dance Exchange to perform dance, song and poetry.
I have been working closely with Teen Exchange as a mentor / facilitator this year.
Teens from Teen Exchange performed their own original choreography, and they also organized the event and invited the group's who performed.
Please follow this link to find the recent video documentation to a light / shadow workshop facilitated this month with Teen Exchange.
As well as this link to the Teen Exchange Tumblr and here for more information about this youth-lead modern dance group.
In this gallery are photos from my work with Teen Exchange. Each week they work independantly and in groups to develop choreographic material for their Spring program.
Images in this gallery are from the creative convening workshop hosted by the Teen Exchange on Saturday December 11, 2010.
Lead artist Wayles Haynes and I worked together to organize an all day workshop with the Teen X-change, at the Dance Exchange studio in Takoma Park. Teens participated in art making, editing/shooting video for their TX website, dance improvisation and composition work and we worked together on designing and brainstorming plans for some of the collaborative garments that I have begun to explore in my Creative Project for MACA.
Please view the Teen Exchange's Tumblr for more images and updates.
Tool training with Dance Exchange (DX) Company member Shula Strassfeld. She spent two hours working with Anne Kotleba and I working through DX Tool Box activities. She focused on one called “Detail: a tool which focuses on drawing movement ideas from concrete physical evidence by observing the immediate environment and by conjuring details of a scene from memory and imagination. Rather than a fixed procedure, Detail is a set of practices for observing, imagining, discerning, and organizing information that can be a rich source for movement.”
Shula led us through a series on movement improvs and visualizations to create solo material and material that we fused together. I really enjoyed dancing with Anne! As we have begun to co-facilitate at Dr. Rayner Browne we are developing and sharing some great activities together and this training strengthened this relationship for sure!!