trying to evolve (2018)
Choreography: Lexi Clark-Stilianos
Music: Trying to Evolve by Ani Difranco
Performed by: Brooke Tinsley, Marrisa Thomas, Megan Wurtz, Dani Kfoury, Gabby Malagreca, Emily Kilroy, Jane Schriner, Cody Krause, Mia Williams, and Olivia Ward.
Costumes: Lindsey Simon
Trying to Evolve is a comedic commentary on action paralysis. You care about environmental justice, protest about corrupt government policies, but also take care of your neighbors and overpolicing, and can’t forget about the well-being of global politics, but need to take care of yourself and don’t forgot to call that family member- how do you keep up?
dodge/weave (2020)
Choreography: Lexi Clark-Stilianos
Media Design: Lexi Clark-Stilianos
Music: Senking
Performed by: Unna Fernandez, Bianca Garcia, Nicolette Pilalis, Rachel Rumbaugh, Natalie Schultz
This piece was originally presented at the Mix Match Dance Festival in Santa Monica, CA in 2014 and was commissioned for re-staging at The Ohio State University's for the Department of Dance's School Tour Group in Spring 2018 where it toured at upwards of twelve public schools throughout central Ohio.
"Lexi brings an empowerment to the embodied experience of dancing that is unmatched. She has a humor, rhythm, vitality, and strength that shines through her work that is distinctly her own. [She] invites levity and allowance to be yourself into her choreographic process to bring out the best in her dancers.One of her dances was featured in our recent School Tour Concert and after each performance, the kids wanted to know, "Who is Lexi?! Is she here? How did the dancers do that? She's one of the few people I know who can get smiles out of an otherwise austere audience."
-Angelica Bell
the tie that binds (2018)
Choreography: Lexi Clark-Stilianos
Media Design: Lexi Clark-Stilianos
Performers:
Pulling from commercial, house footwork, and contemporary western concert dance training- this commissioned group work explores unity through building bridges, not walls with bodies and energetic musicality. Commissioned by the OSU Brazil Tour Group which toured around Brazil in May 2018.
Written in Water (2018)
Premiered March 2017, Barnett Theatre
Department of Dance at The Ohio State University
Performers: Callie Lacinski (dancer) and Lissa Reed (Cellist)
Choreography: Lexi Clark-Stilianos and Callie Lacinski
Artistic Direction: Lexi Clark-Stilianos
Read Callie's mid-process blogging on her senior these project and her collaboration and mentorship
"Lexi’s choreography for the OSU Dance Brazil Tour was a high point of the repertory. Her work, The Tie That Binds, highlighted the dancers’ physical strengths and musicality while a creating a world of its own with solo material, partnering, and flocking groups of unison, canon, and organized chaos. Lexi’s professionalism, preparedness, and attention to detail is noteworthy and her individual interaction with the dancers while setting the work was positive and upbeat. Her talent to develop movement material which incorporates her interests in commercial and contemporary dance forms is unique. The piece was a hit in Brazil!"
-Daniel Roberts, Assistant Professor of Dance at The Ohio State University
layered and lost (in bones and flowers) 2024
Premiered February 2024, The Well Center for Movement
Performers: Alicia Hann and Laura Patterson
Choreography: Lexi Clark-Stilianos (in collaboration with dancers)
Composer: Hanzhe Zhang
Vocals: Carly Augenstein, Alicia Hann, Laura Patterson
Media Designer: Lexi Clark-Stilianos
This work-in-progress piece continues the work of the 2020 dance film entitled Siren Reddress. Inspired by scholar Emily Wilson’s translation of the Odyssey, both works seek to dismantle the seductive mermaid iconography of one of mythologies most mistranslated female monsters. The sister-sirens in this work explore what it’s like to both reclaim their narrative and lean into it for play.
bare/red (2016)
Raw Artists Columbus, Shadowbox Theatre- Columbus OH
Choreographer and Peformer: Lexi Clark-Stilianos