Xander Cobb

Photo: C Green

Xander is an emerging choreographer, performer, teacher and organizer. Their pathway to performance entwines competitive ski racing, studies of earth science, a passion for community organizing and a fascination with alchemizing grief. They’ve collaborated with and performed in works by Millie Heckler, Laurel Jenkins and Julian Barnett. Their work has been shown at Burlington City Arts, The Off Center for the Dramatic arts and The Flynn. Describing Xander, Barnett speaks of “their sheer expansive and rigorous thinking, virtuosic writing skills, and powerful, poetic dancing.” Their work collages narrative, discordant dance forms, gender defiance, and unapologetically on the nose sentiments. They rigorously develop improvisation that magnifies the presence of performance. Their current passions and inquiries include House Dance and Culture, asexual aromantic love stories, and applying improvisational dance practices to political organizing strategy. They dream of creating a performance art collective of culture workers, dancers, musicians, poets, sculptors, film makers and designers who collaborate on experimental and accessible works in public spaces. They long for a culture where dancing and singing in public are totally celebrated and everyday parts of life.