Alexandra Sachs is a German choreographer / scenographer based in Zurich (Switzerland) and New York City. She worked as a production designer for films, studied design, completed a master in Scenography and has a degree in Choreography. Her work is situated between the visual and the performing arts while focusing on creating a dialogue between the two.
Her latest works shown in New York City were the choreography for a fashion presentation of SIKI IM (September 2010), SCHAU Version B, featuring the Performance Artist Mai Ueda, at the Gallery Gavin Brown (July 2010) and SCHAU at the Artist Building 110 on Governors Island (June 2010).
Before, she showed several performances in Switzerland: Bonjour Marlene (June 2009), a collaboration with the performer Deborah Suhner; The Perfect Choice (July 2007), a collaboration with the architect Richard Fulton and with contributions from Richard Foreman (Ontological Hysteric Theater NYC), Michael Laub (Remote Control BRX) and Scott Shepherd (The Wooster Group NYC); Play (December 2006); Quoting (May 2006); and Little City (October 2005).
She has received funding from The Dance Department of the Canton of Zurich, The Dance Department of the City of Zurich, The Foundation Nestlé pour l’Art, The George and Jenny Bloch Foundation, The Ernst Göhner Foundation, The Familien von Tobel Foundation, The SIG Foundation and The Artephila Foundation in Switzerland.
Alexandra Sachs has been awarded in 2010 with a Research Grant of the Dance Foundation of The City of Zurich and the Swing Space Program from Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.
SCHAU is a performance loosely inspired by the film A Chorus Line, where dancers audition for a Broadway production and are forced to show their psyche and individuality in additional to their acting and dance skills.
Together with three performers, Sachs will scrutinize possible ways of performing. It will be an investigation of the plethora of tools utilized by the performer from his natural stage presence to his blatant showmanship of the absolute burlesque.
SCHAU was presented in June 2010 as a work-in-progress in the Artist Building 110 on Governors Island. Sachs realized this choreographic work in the Swing Space program of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.