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Alexandra Wuzyk is a multidisciplinary artist born and raised in South Africa. She studied Fine Art at LUCA School of Arts in Belgium, where her work grew to focus on the โmoment of meetingโ through interactive performances and projects inviting people into co-creational and embodied roles. (A Human Interaction, Human Constellations)
She first encountered contact improvisation in 2020 and fell in love with the practice as an embodied education for life. She has been actively practicing and studying since then, mostly with ๐ป๐ถ๐พ๐จ๐น๐ซ๐บ - ๐จ๐ ๐ถ๐๐๐ ๐ฐ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ฌ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐จ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ป๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ณ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ in Thailand. Through TOWARDS she has been a part of many long-durational workshops and retreats as artist in residence or support team. She has had the opportunity to study CI in-depth with teachers such as such as Sasha Dodo, Dolores Dewhurst-Marks, Kirstie Simson, Ku Ming-Shen, Bari Kim, Yasukichi Suzuki, Anjelika Doniy, Alicia Grayson and many more.
She believes in Contact Improvisation as a space that transcends cultural barriers and opens much needed states of listening.
Her artistic work includes painting, film, poetry and performance. She considers states of improvisation as the birthspace of creative practice, and finds the most interesting arts evolve through focusing on processes moment by moment, resisting the urge to plan what happens next. Her interest is to allow natural rhythm and simple truth to reveal itself.
In 2023 she completed a residency teaching contact improvisation at ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ด๐ผ๐๐๐ฒ๐ป ๐๐ป๐ด๐น๐ฒ ๐ง๐ต๐ฒ๐ฎ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐๐ผ๐น๐น๐ฎ๐ฏ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐๐ฒ, a project sharing dance education for all in Emakhazeni, South Africa, near her hometown in Mpumalanga. During the TOWARDS Summer Residency 2024 she organized เธเธฒเธเนเธเธดเธเธเนเธฒเธTowards / ๐ง๐ผ๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฑ๐ ๐ข๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ป ๐๐ผ๐๐๐ฒ - ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ฎ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ฎ๐ผ, an initiative to create more possibilities for Thai speakers and beginners to find a supportive spaces for the practice of CI, as well as ๐๐ฒ๐๐ผ๐ป๐ฑ ๐๐ฎ๐ป๐ด๐๐ฎ๐ด๐ฒ | ๐๐ฟ๐ ๐ ๐ฎ๐ธ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ฆ๐ฝ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฒ, a non-verbal creative container, which supported drawing, sculpture and spontaneous performances. In February 2025 she organized and co-facilitated ๐ช๐ฒ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ช๐ผ๐ฟ๐น๐ฑ ๐ช๐ฒ ๐๐ผ๐๐ฒ, a 5 week full-time research group, proposed as a meeting point for CI practitioners to feel challenges facing the world, question what to support, and how to embody those values.
