Conrad Alexandrowicz
Associate Professor
school of music
University of Victoria
Canada
Biography
Alexandrowicz currently holds a generous SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council) grant to explore using poetry as the textual basis for physical theatre creation. His collaborators on this extended project have been poets Erín Moure and Lorna Crozier—a long-time faculty member in the Department of Writing—and Sandra Dawkins, head of woodwinds at the School of Music.
Research Interest
onrad Alexandrowicz is a director, writer and choreographer, and the artistic director of Wild Excursions Performance. He specializes in the creation of varieties of interdisciplinary performance that address subjects central to the human journey: issues of relationship, gender and power, and the nature of the performance event itself. Drawing from a number of genres and disciplines, which are deconstructed and then recombined in startling ways, the work is often subversive, interrogating conventional theatrical procedures and forms. This includes work that is dance-based, but makes significant use of theatrical elements; work that is theatre-based but contains significant movement or other non-naturalistic components; and work adapted from the standard play repertoire that is staged in innovative ways.
Publications
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Duxbury N, Campbell H, Keurvorst E. Developing and revitalizing rural communities through arts and culture. Small Cities Imprint. 2011;3(1):111-22.
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Alexandrowicz C. Dancing the page: reflections on staging poetic text. Studies in Theatre and Performance. 2015 May 4;35(2):120-39.
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SHAYNE J. CHILEAN EXILES AND THEIR FEMINIST STORIES. Taking Risks: Feminist Activism and Research in the Americas. 2014:61.
