Celebrity BBW

Alexandra Beller made a place for queen-sized dancers on the concert stage. She holds a BFA in Dance from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and a MFA in Dance from the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. Her unique work blends theater and movement with astute choices and intense performances. Beller is a powerful and voluptuous mover. When she dances, you’re bowled over because, while her anatomy leads you to expect an earth goddess – weighty and rooted – she’s quick, light, and buoyant, with a mercurial liquidity in her joints. Alexandra received an NCCI commission from Montclair State University to serve as adjunct faculty and guest choreographer in 2003/2004. Film work includes “Romance and Cigarettes” by John Turturro. She has modeled for fashion, feature and commercials and has appeared on the Ananda Lewis Show, The Oxygen network, E! Entertainment Television, and other shows. Alexandra is also a part time dance critic and writes dance reviews.

“It is always good to see an artist pushing at awkward, deeply felt realities, and Ms. Beller does so with a generous spirit…her choices are smart, including her fine dancers. They slide with aplomb between comic-pathetic exchanges and Ms. Beller’s full-bodied, voluptuous choreography.” – The New York Times

See Alexandra Beller Dance

“egg” is a solo work for Beller unearthing the turmoil, ecstasy, passion and ambivalence in the first year of motherhood. Confronting both personal and cultural expectations for women and mothers through humor, confession, and a construction of impossible tasks, egg reveals why we fail as mothers in the eyes of society and attempts to find love within the matrix of perfection. Celebrated dancer Alexandra Beller uses dance, text, mathematics, and raw eggs in her search for balance, humor, love and justification. The piece demands an answer to the unanswerable questions of both motherhood and the artistic life. A mine field of sound-producing equipment sets the stage for Bellers lush and evocative dancing around and between twelve dozen raw eggs. An eerie and three dimensional sound score by Robert Poss and vintage-inspired costume by Karen Young enrobe the artist in textured, shifting archetypes and images.