IN MOTION
I am a professional dancer + freelance movement artist.
Artist Biography
Alexis Julovich is from Indianapolis, Indiana. Her unexpected passion for pursuing dance began at age 12, with competitive dance training. However, her love of movement emerged from the moment she could walk. Alexis deepened her training at Columbia College of Chicago, where she graduated with a BA in Dance. In Chicago, she trained under innovators such as Darrell Jones, Margi Cole, Paige Cunningham Caldarella, Keesha Beckford, Carrie Hanson, Tosha Alston, Onye Ozuzu, and many more. During these formative years, her emphasis was on various lineages of modern techniques as well as understanding the role of social dance techniques derived from the African diaspora and her own Mediterranean culture. While in Chicago, she had the opportunity to perform works by Peter Carpenter, Qudus Onikeku, and Anna Martine Whitehead.
Her post-graduate education continued in Northern Israel with Kibbutz Contemporary Company in their Dance Journey program. In Israel, Alexis established her choreographic voice and gained more experience in the global performance process. She performed works from artistic director Rami Be’er and several company members. The evolution of embodying various styles and immersing herself in the foundations of movement gave her a sense of curiosity that has never left her experience.
Alexis currently resides in Indianapolis, IN, where she is a member of Crossroads Dance Indy and a practicing local freelance dance artist. She actively teaches somatic foundations, contemporary floor work techniques, and the intersection of all living styles of dance within the body.
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My work cultivating Soma, a somatic movement experience, began in the process of discovering the inexplicable connection between the natural world, the human condition, and the relationship of those elements to the body. I use the metaphor of the “body as archive” which refers to the idea that the body can be understood as a “storage place” of corporeal documents and, therefore, a living library of incorporated knowledge. It permeates much of the work I do with somatic movement practices, but correlates to the larger scope of work presented in research findings of psychologists and neuroscientists about the connection between our mind and body. We know our past experiences are held deeply within the psyche, but they simultaneously live in the body as well.
The dynamics of our current life lived, entwined with memory and often trauma, is a playground only one discovers as the process of the human condition. Our experience with emotional and physical pain gives rise to the pain body; Stored in our fascia, and often running rampant in our minds.
This work is designed to be a springboard for life. It is a place where the foundational work of taking refuge in the lived experience can be done. It is a practice that connects us to our life force. This process allows us to foster the ability to re-orientate the ways in which we relate to ourselves and subsequently the world around us. The ultimate goal is never to escape, but to experience a new lens of life through movement, breath, and awareness. It is my greatest pleasure helping others find tools to bridge the gap of disconnection from their life and help bring a sense of liberation into the body. I call this: being radically alive.
Cultivating Sōma
(Somatic Movement Lab)
| a springboard for life.
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