Welcome to Auxenia Grace’s homepage! Below is her artist bio and in the dropdown menu are pages documenting the creation process of An Anomaly in the Deep. For quick facts and to watch performances from the senior dance concert, Process Log: Ascension, check out this page. Enjoy!

Auxenia Grace was raised on the ancestral homelands of the Gabrielino-Tongva in what is now known as the Los Angeles basin. Her movement journey began as a competitive ballroom dancer before discovering a love for modern dance. Throughout high school Auxenia Grace trained extensively in Horton and Cunningham techniques, as well as ballet, tap, and contemporary, at the Zipper Dance Institute at the Colburn School. During her time at Smith, she has been heavily influenced by improvisational practices and various styles of contemporary dance. She has collaborated on and performed in works by Xan Burley, Bronwen MacArthur, Sarah Swenson, Tamsin Carlson, Anna M. Maynard, Rodger Blum, and David Dorfman. Auxenia has previously created works for composition classes at Smith College which have been performed for in-class showings and in the Bare Bones Dance Concert.

As a queer, mixed Filipina, finding and existing in intersection is an intrinsic aspect of her life journey. Auxenia completed a double major in dance and biology at Smith and loves finding ways for these fields to speak the same language and work toward similar goals. She is interested in human perception of events and speed/slowness, relationships with gravity and ground, and investigating themes of resurfacing in movement practices and in life. After graduation she plans to continue training in dance in her hometown of Los Angeles and pursue opportunities in the performing arts.