In a delightful conversation, Alicia speaks with chroeographer, director, and writer Alexander Beller about empathy, violence, rigor, and not-knowing inside her creative process. As a teacher, Alexandra speaks of helping her students attune to their own creative knowing while simultaneously developing capacity for not knowing. Her recent book The Anatomy of Art supports dance and theatre artists in their own creative process.

More About Alexandra Beller:

Alexandra Beller (MFA, CMA), Artistic Director of Alexandra Beller/Dances (2002-present) was a Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company member from 1995-2001. Alexandra created 60+ Dance Theatre works in Korea, Hong Kong, Oslo, Cyprus, and the US. University work includes Barnard, SUNY Purchase, Rutgers, Princeton, UCSB, U of MI (Ann Arbor), and The New School.

She taught at Princeton 2015-2022 and is on faculty at the Laban Institute for Movement Studies. She also teaches at HB Studios, Gibney Dance Center. She choreographs and teaches internationally. She wrote two books: The Embodied Conductor: A Somatic Approach to Conducting with Laban and Bartenieff (Publisher TBA soon), and The Anatomy of Art: Unlocking the Creative Process for Theater and Dance (Bloomsbury, 2025).

In this episode, Alicia talks about the work an artist can do to encourage inspiration to strike. It's never a guarantee, but when we are working and thinking about an idea we open the door. THEN we need to get moving. Not simply putting pen to paper or ink to canvas. But going out and seeing other people's work, following intuitive nudges, wandering, remembering, and going within.

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In this episode, Alicia shares a new creative journey that she is moving through. Adventures she is taking herself on in order to stimulate a writing practice. She helps us all remember that we don't need to know where we're going with our creativity, we simply have to value ourselves and our creative process enough to get started.

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