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Alexandra Beller on Body Image, Somatics, and Creating Embodied Art
Alexandra Beller on Body Image, Somatics, and Creating Embodied Art
Choreographer, educator, and author Alexandra Beller discusses her early experiences coming of age in the 1980s amid intense diet culture, bullying, and body shaming, while finding wholeness and spiritual aliveness through dance.
She describes how her body type limited casting and training opportunities, the power critics once held, and how joining choreographer Bill T. Jones’ company broke industry norms but increased public scrutiny of her body. Beller reflects on building chosen family in dance, developing internal guardrails for self-worth, and learning to receive praise without taking criticism as truth.
She explores menopause as a neurological and personal rewiring that strengthened consent and self-advocacy, and shares creating a pivotal work based on her preverbal child’s developmental movement. She explains her somatic approach to helping clients access body-held emotion and why she wrote a book to support artists, creativity, and inner-critic work.
00:00 Meet Alexandra Beller
01:09 Teen Years and Body Image
04:38 Disordered Eating Pressures
06:08 Rejection and Breaking In
09:42 Critics Then and Now
11:58 Dance Community and Self Worth
16:06 Learning to Receive Praise
19:31 Love Mirrors and Self View
21:22 Menopause Rebellion and Renewal
25:22 Healthcare Gaps and Finding No
29:10 Starting a Dance Company
31:41 A Work Where Words Fail
34:03 Baby Movement as Spiritual Research
38:04 Inner Child Onstage
40:25 Why We Stop Moving
42:26 Undoing School Body Locks
45:51 Nature As Sensation
47:56 Breastfeeding And Wholeness
51:16 Helping Clients Embody
53:38 Somatic Patterns And Emotion
56:43 Why Write The Book
58:32 Writing Flow And ADHD
01:02:19 Vulnerability In Print
01:04:39 Pruning Ego And Therapy
01:06:14 Next Decade And Good Life
01:08:22 Closing Thanks
https://www.alexandrabellerdances.org/
https://www.facebook.com/alexandra.beller.73/
https://www.youtube.com/@alexandrabeller9868
https://www.instagram.com/alexandrabellerdances/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandra-beller-0a56a57/
https://www.tiktok.com/@thelabanista?lang=en
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By Andrew PhippsAlexandra Beller on Body Image, Somatics, and Creating Embodied Art
Choreographer, educator, and author Alexandra Beller discusses her early experiences coming of age in the 1980s amid intense diet culture, bullying, and body shaming, while finding wholeness and spiritual aliveness through dance.
She describes how her body type limited casting and training opportunities, the power critics once held, and how joining choreographer Bill T. Jones’ company broke industry norms but increased public scrutiny of her body. Beller reflects on building chosen family in dance, developing internal guardrails for self-worth, and learning to receive praise without taking criticism as truth.
She explores menopause as a neurological and personal rewiring that strengthened consent and self-advocacy, and shares creating a pivotal work based on her preverbal child’s developmental movement. She explains her somatic approach to helping clients access body-held emotion and why she wrote a book to support artists, creativity, and inner-critic work.
00:00 Meet Alexandra Beller
01:09 Teen Years and Body Image
04:38 Disordered Eating Pressures
06:08 Rejection and Breaking In
09:42 Critics Then and Now
11:58 Dance Community and Self Worth
16:06 Learning to Receive Praise
19:31 Love Mirrors and Self View
21:22 Menopause Rebellion and Renewal
25:22 Healthcare Gaps and Finding No
29:10 Starting a Dance Company
31:41 A Work Where Words Fail
34:03 Baby Movement as Spiritual Research
38:04 Inner Child Onstage
40:25 Why We Stop Moving
42:26 Undoing School Body Locks
45:51 Nature As Sensation
47:56 Breastfeeding And Wholeness
51:16 Helping Clients Embody
53:38 Somatic Patterns And Emotion
56:43 Why Write The Book
58:32 Writing Flow And ADHD
01:02:19 Vulnerability In Print
01:04:39 Pruning Ego And Therapy
01:06:14 Next Decade And Good Life
01:08:22 Closing Thanks
https://www.alexandrabellerdances.org/
https://www.facebook.com/alexandra.beller.73/
https://www.youtube.com/@alexandrabeller9868
https://www.instagram.com/alexandrabellerdances/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandra-beller-0a56a57/
https://www.tiktok.com/@thelabanista?lang=en