(born 1990 in Brooklyn) is a singer, sound choreographer and performance artist based in Vienna. His works center on the voice as an agent of dance, often placing its watery bodies in uncanny or overwhelming structures. Guided by a phenomenological approach, these structures become sites for playful experimentation and the development of sound choreographies. Alex is obsessed with water as a material and situation, and with aqueous concepts of embodiment. He is trained in Aguahara and offers individual sessions on his own take on this aquatic bodywork, drawing on his lexicon of underwater vocal explorations and their ability to caress the physical body. Alex studied vocal performance, dance, acting and composition in the Experimental Theater Wing at NYU Tisch School of the Arts and the International Theater Workshop in Amsterdam. His work has been shown both nationally and internationally and has been supported by Leimay Cave, Arts Unfold, INK Initiative, Arbeitsplatz Wien, Evening Hours NY, Dixon Place, Huggy Bears, APAP, brut Wien and Wien Kultur; he has been awarded the BKA Startstipendium für Musik und Darstellende Kunst (2018), the TURBO Residency – ImPulsTanz 2018, the TQW-Ausbildungsstipendium (2019) and the danceWEB-Stipendium (2019). www.alexfranzzehetbauer.com
