Photo: Erased, Movement Direction
Movement Director/Coach: As a movement director/consultant/mentor, Alix has worked at Opera Lyra, the National Arts Centre, The Canadian Children’s Opera Company, Corpus/PanAm Games, and with numerous independent theatre companies and universities. The Monkiest King (libretto by Marjorie Chan, composed by Alice Ho and directed by Nina Lee Aquino) won multiple Dora awards. Some favorite Indie movement direction: Open Heart Surgery’s Erased directed by Coleen Macpherson, Filiment Theatre’s Araignée directed by Elise Gautier, Deluxe Hot Sauce’s SKIN directed by Martha Ross, Randolph College: Peer Gynt directed by Richard Rose, The Oresteia directed by David Jansen, York University’s The Bakkhai directed by David Jansen. Alix also coached on the set of The Queens of Avalon – Music Video for AmphisMusic.
Director: Alix made her directorial debut with Evolution Theatre’s [boxhead]. She has since directed both Opera Lyra’s The Pirates of Penzance and The Magic Flute and was the revival director for Bremen Town Musicians, she directed the site-specific pieces MoonScape and Alchemy on Pelee Island and Alix assistant directed the CCOC’s The Hobbit, directed by Allison Grant and The Monkiest King, directed by Nina Lee Aquino.
WHAT SOME HAVE TO SAY:
Thank you Alix Sideris for your fearless, epic, wholesome, skilled, visionary work on Erased as a fearless leader, my co-conspirator and our official Movement Director. Movement Direction is essential to a play like ours, whose story is not only told through text - but through the body - where gesture marries words in a unique layering that invites an audience into a visceral experience. We worked through iteration, collaboration; tried and experimented - failed, explored, improvised like one does in a physical theatre or devised room. However, like in dance, we need to create the movement that ignites the story of each character. It’s like choreography, but more connected to the dramaturgy of the play itself. It means writing through the body. It means listening to each performer’s body. And Alix does this with magical grace and an open heart. She is a true collaborator. (Coleen MacPherson, director, Erased)
“Fantastic movement direction is by Alix Sideris” (Aisling Murphy, Globe and Mail, Erased review)
“The immersive choreography by Alix Sideris is truly beguiling.” (Joshua Chong, Toronto Star, Erased review)
“Ingenuity of the staging and choreography … Although Peer Gynt is definitely not musical theatre, movement and song are key elements of this production. I thought the choreography was a real highlight. The actual dance sequences, the way the performers used their bodies to represent things and ideas, and the way the actors flowed from one scene to the next all conveyed deep meaning”. (Mooney on Theatre, Peer Gynt review)
“The use of the actors as time and place was so rich. The ocean rhythm was so true, and its power to destroy was devastating.” (Trish York, Peer Gynt review)