{"id":67,"date":"2023-09-28T10:59:16","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T10:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/content\/content-1\/?page_id=67"},"modified":"2026-07-08T01:27:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T05:27:12","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/alexanderlyle.com\/index.php\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-930feb06 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/alexanderlyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/MVI_0082_6.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-155\" style=\"width:758px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alexanderlyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/MVI_0082_6.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/alexanderlyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/MVI_0082_6-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alexanderlyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/MVI_0082_6-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/alexanderlyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/MVI_0082_6-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">I began my creative life as a dancer, using my body in motion to explore the foggy expanse between consciousness and physical experience.\u00a0 After a decade feeling unfulfilled in the choreographic confines of ballet and modern dance I transitioned to the less determinate pursuits of improvisation and butoh &#8211; inquiries into sub\u2013intellectual direct expression that led me to my current performative, sculptural, and visual practice. I now utilize these modes as a means to directly examine that same foggy expanse as well as to relate to a world I find over-laden with questionable truths and unsure realities. To do that I continually return to my body (in an animal sense) and the body&#8217;s direct produce.\u00a0 By its very nature the body has the potential for prime information &#8211; information that can serve as a much needed counter-point to the soul-less, manufactured, possibilities overtaking the human experience. I endeavor by working with my body to create work from a place more governed by my species than by my culture &#8211; conceiving with intellect but shaping and marking with as much organic honesty as I can manage in the hope of finding an underlying language that speaks to our species at large. Connecting the work with the act of making it &#8211; moving between the familiar and the unknown &#8211; the works that exist as much in process as in artifact and aftermath.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I began my creative life as a dancer, using my body in motion to explore the foggy expanse between consciousness and physical experience.\u00a0 After a decade feeling unfulfilled in the choreographic confines of ballet and modern dance I transitioned to the less determinate pursuits of improvisation and butoh &#8211; inquiries into sub\u2013intellectual direct expression that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexanderlyle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexanderlyle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexanderlyle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexanderlyle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexanderlyle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/alexanderlyle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":882,"href":"https:\/\/alexanderlyle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/67\/revisions\/882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexanderlyle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexanderlyle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexanderlyle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}