Exilediem is a series of projects where still and moving images are collaboratively produced to promote and support the work of artists. We look for evocative presences as a motif to epitomize the infinite alternatives of "being here, being there, being elsewhere, now, and then". We are inspired by expressions of the human condition across space, time, and cultures. We are motivated by consciousness and by the unconscious origins of our destinations; with all the transitional quiet and loud spaces that nurture our existences in between.
Christopher Burch is an artist, events organizer, and educator based in San Francisco CA and St. Louis MO. He received the Painting Fellowship for his graduate studies at the San Francisco Art Institute (MFA 2008) and is a graduate of Columbia College with a BFA in 2002. He worked with The St. Louis Freedom Schools as a program coordinator and arts instructor from 2000 to 2002. From 2004 to 2006 he worked as curriculum developer for the Center of Creative Arts (COCA) in St. Louis Mo creating several yearlong educational/residence programs within four St. Louis public schools. In 2008 to 2009 he worked for the East Oakland School of the Arts (EOSA).
Burch is working on several large-scale public works/ educational programs that explore personal myth making and the re-imagining of identity, entitled 'Reflective Mythologies: Portraits Re-mixed." He is also a founding member of The Screwed Arts collective whose architecturally scaled improvisation wall drawings have been exhibited at the Regional Arts Commission in St, Louis MO, The World Chess Hall of Fame St, Louis Mo and The Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts Grand Rapids MI.
Alejandro Urguell Reyes
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Classical ballet alumni from Escuela Nacional de Arte (ENA)
Alejandro Urguell Reyes is a multidisciplinary artist\ballet dancer originally from la Havana, Cuba. Alejandro has travelled and performed internationally with renowned dance companies. He is currently working on a multidisciplinary exhibition|performance to take place in San Francisco in 2016.
"Mr. Reyes was trained in classical ballet at the National School of the Arts in Havana Cuba since age 7, under such notable teachers as Director/teacher Mirths Hermida, Clara Carranco, Laura Alonso, Andres Williams and Jorge Esquivel. Upon graduation Mr. Reyes was invited to join the National Ballet of Cuba under the direction of Alicia Alonso. He performed as a soloist and Principal dancer in several classical ballets including Don Quixote, Coppelia, Ravels Bolero, Nutcracker, Spiral, and Sleeping Beauty. Relocated to Madrid, Spain in 1989, Mr. Reyes was invited to dance with the National Ballet of Spain, under director and choreographer Nacho Duato. In addition to performing with NBS, Mr. Reyes also performed in Italy at the Balleto di Roma, and in France and Belgium with Bejart Ballet Lausanne. In the United States, Mr. Reyes performed with the Alvin Ailey American Ballet Theater, at the Festival International de Ballet de Miami, and Napoles Ballet Theatre in San Francisco."
"Mr. Reyes was trained in classical ballet at the National School of the Arts in Havana Cuba since age 7, under such notable teachers as Director/teacher Mirths Hermida, Clara Carranco, Laura Alonso, Andres Williams and Jorge Esquivel. Upon graduation Mr. Reyes was invited to join the National Ballet of Cuba under the direction of Alicia Alonso. He performed as a soloist and Principal dancer in several classical ballets including Don Quixote, Coppelia, Ravels Bolero, Nutcracker, Spiral, and Sleeping Beauty. Relocated to Madrid, Spain in 1989, Mr. Reyes was invited to dance with the National Ballet of Spain, under director and choreographer Nacho Duato. In addition to performing with NBS, Mr. Reyes also performed in Italy at the Balleto di Roma, and in France and Belgium with Bejart Ballet Lausanne. In the United States, Mr. Reyes performed with the Alvin Ailey American Ballet Theater, at the Festival International de Ballet de Miami, and Napoles Ballet Theatre in San Francisco."
Exilediem
"Day of Music" at Café at New Parish Oakland California, when trained musicians and novices
spontaneously show up to play and improvise in celebration of the International Day of Music.