Lexi Clark-Stilianos (she/her) is a intermedia artist, dance-maker, energetic educator, multidisciplinary mover. Lexi has created original choreography, dance films, interactive projection work, installations, and other multimedia dance based projects featured across the US. Her movement practice spans commercial and contemporary western concert forms of dance and she holds a Bachelor of Science in Dance Education from Bowling Green State University and a Master of Fine Arts in Dance with a focus on Choreography, Technology, and Feminist Studies from The Ohio State University. She has performed with Mashup Contemporary Dance Company, Open Window Dance, and presented work at the Detroit City Dance Festival, National Dance Studies Association Conference, Midwest RAD Festival, Trifecta Dance Festival, JELLO Performance Series, Choreographers Carnival Los Angeles, and more. Lexi has been awarded many grants and funding opportunities for her work, including being one of ten local filmmakers awarded $25,000 by the Greater Columbus Arts Council in 2024. She has a passion for creating and supporting vibrant, rewarding, interactive, rigorous, and honest creative and performance spaces. Lexi is the founder and artistic director of STILGO dance + tech who’s mission is to bring dance-based programming and performance infused with and inspired by digital technologies to the Midwest arts community. She is currently on faculty as a Lecturer of Dance and Technology in the Department of Dance at The Ohio State University.
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Lexi’s studio classes range from release and contemporary based practices that are heavy in floorwork and traveling through space with ease to commercial forms of dance that emphasize musicality and the range of staccato gestures to groove and bounce through the body. She teaches open company classes and in the Columbus community drop-in style. To find out about upcoming classes, follow @stilgoco on Instagram or Facebook.
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Through workshop series hosted by STILGO and through semester-long university courses, Lexi equips students with both the practical and creative. While she covers a breadth of skills- she specializes in in non-linear video editing, media and projection design, and videography all through the lens of choreographic practice and processes.
Recent courses taught at The Ohio State University in the Department of Dance and the Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design are:
Intermedia Choreography
Creative Technologies in Dance
Tech Practicum: Isadora Programming
Dance Film II
She has also taught studio based course and choreographic composition classes at other universities as a guest lecturer throughout the midwest.
Lexi is available for residencies, workshops, and choreographic comissions- please use contact form to inquire!
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Lexi’s dance making practices sit at the intersection between contemporary dance theatre, site specific screendance, and intermedia installation events. She is interested in how the audience performs spectatorship and how that is empowered, acknowledge, or designed for. She often uses literature and myth as a jumping off point to reclaim or retool stories through a female/queer point of view- offering alternative narratives. Her choreographies are layered, complex, and spatially adventurous- on stages, in galleries, on location, on screens. With the integration of digital technologies or intentionally analog, her work is multidisciplinary and collaborative- pulling from various embodied vocabularies and ensemble building strategies.
See the “Works” page for selected and recent works.
