Lois Alexander is a choreographer and dancer based in Berlin. A graduate of The Juilliard School (BFA in Dance), she moves between disciplines, geographies, and histories—working extensively across the independent dance scenes in Germany and the Netherlands. In 2020, she was awarded the Young Art Amsterdam Prize.
Her choreographic debut, Neptune, premiered at Tanztage Berlin. Since 2021, she has been part of the Aerowaves network, presenting internationally at festivals such as Julidans, Kilowatt, and b.Motion. In 2022, she created Yeye, supported by the Berlin Senate for Culture and co-produced by Sophiensaele, later shown at Move! Krefeld. In 2023, Ballhaus Naunynstraße commissioned her to create Eventually Causing the Shake as part of the series Wie ich werde, ich will sein.
Lois is also a fully certified Pilates teacher (since 2018), a practice that informs her deep understanding of physical architecture, attention, and care within movement. As a teacher and facilitator, she has led workshops, choreographic labs, and lectures at Fontys Dance Academy, Utrecht University, and Maramero Berlin. Her international collaborations include choreographic exchanges in Nigeria (2022, supported by the Berlin Senate for Culture) and Senegal (2023, supported by Aerowaves, Théâtre Paris Villette, and Duo Solo Danse).
Her choreographic practice aims to shift cultural codes and rewrite narratives through the materiality of the body, time, and space. Working from memory, origin, and intersecting identities, she approaches performance as a site of relation. Inspired by Tina Campt’s idea of textured identities, Lois uses the embodied nature of dance to articulate an in-between, migratory state grounded in Black feminist perspectives.
