About

Lexi Vajda is an independent dance artist who has the privilege of living and working on the unceded territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Musqueam and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. Lexi's interest in movement, imagination and sensation culminates in a practice of making performances, installations and film as well as interpreting the works of other artists.  She has worked with companies and choreographers such as Shay Kuebler RSA, Animals of Distinction, the response., Out Innerspace Dance theatre, Action at a Distance, Theatre Replacement, Company 605, Kinesis Dance Somatheatro, plastic orchid factory, The Party, Delia Brett, Cindy Mochizuki, Tanz&Kunst Konigsfelden, Sasha Kleinplatz and Emmalena Frederiksson.

Lexi’s work investigates expanded notions of dance, peripheral spaces for choreography and improvisational score making and has been shared at PS: We Are All Here, Bloom, the Dance Café, DIY@DIV, Boombox, The Dance Centre,  F-O-R-M festival for Recorded movement as well as at Family Fuse at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Collaborative, anti-oppressive, and intersectional approaches to performance and pedagogy are also central to her practice. Lexi was a recipient of the 2016 Vancouver Mayor’s Arts Award for emerging artist in dance.