alyxåndra ciale (aka cia) is a Trans-Indigenous CHamoru yan Pinoy cultural worker residing within Lenapehoking, between New York City and Upstate Millerton. They graduated from the University of Michigan’s BFA Acting Conservatory in 2021 and work as a freelance performer, choreopoet, and somatic practitioner. Their work has been at Judson Memorial Church, The Public, Triskelion, Brick Theater, Soho Playhouse, TV Eye, Theater Mu, American Stage, and Cave. In 2024, they co-founded Theater Workers for a Ceasefire while organizing with AntiCapitalism for Artists after training with the inaugural Economics.Art.Transformation cohort. This February, they completed their year-long politicized somatics training with the Center for Liberation and Aliveness and were an AiR at Caldera in Sisters, Oregon. They are also a Queer|Art and Trans Oral History Project finalist. cia is currently organizing “Baby Together”, a QTBIPOC activation series merging healing justice and creative mutual aid for disaster relief.
I am committed to the magic, medicine, and mythology of movement—making (and un-making) myself into offerings of the Body as Re-Matriation Promise. A protest, a prayer, a positive obsession, I imagine myself without shame, dancing through the veil and singing back to the lost-shapen parts of my Self that feel Other: my unsung tricksters; liminal fugitives; and, prophetic invalids, all of whom conspire with me always. With Love and Rigor, I honor my praxis lineages of Critical Fabulation, Somatic Abolition, and Trans-Divination through resistance poetics and performance art. I move through these practices as if I were “island-hopping”, embodying an archipelagic consciousness while devising and organizing to enable depth without drowning and playful porosities. I believe, amidst rising sea-levels and (heart)-melting conditions, that to re-member myself an island is an inherently futurist act, trusting the connective tissue of water—as my wayfinding ancestors did—to lead us back to each other. At the crossfires of beauty, absurdity, and sensuality, I am building home in these commitments, with the promise that there is no such thing as final form.
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