Alexa Solveig Mardon is a dancer, performance maker and facilitator co-creating and seeking spaces for imperfect ritual, queer fantastical myth-making, and multi-sensorial solidarity across difference. Alexa is a first generation settler of Finnish and British Isles descent living as an uninvited guest on the illegally occupied, unceded Coast Salish territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ peoples. Alexa’s work takes forms including stage performance, poetry, movement workshops for frontline support workers, dreamwork + prophecy practices, and teaching professional and non-professional level dance classes. Studying inherited and learned practices of divination through carromancy, dousing, and dream opening, Alexa practices listening and receiving with the other side. Alexa holds a B.A. in English Literature and Creative Writing from Simon Fraser University, and and MA in Choreography from DAS Choreography, University of the Arts Amsterdam, where their research focused on dreaming, writing + movement practices that seek anti-colonial mythical, queer + speculative relations with ancestors of all species. Alexa’s work has been presented by Western Front, The Dance Centre, OFFTA (Montreal,) Boombox Vancouver, PS: We are All Here (Toronto), Kinetic Studios (Halifax), Surrey Art Gallery, and VIVO Media Arts Centre.
Alexa's poetry, fiction and essays have been published by ISSUE Magazine, Charcuterie, LINE, The Dance Current, and The Dance Centre, as guest editor of the Capilano Review.
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