Alex Wilson

Memory Dance was founded by Audio-Visual archivist Alex Wilson in 2016. The project works with festivals, arts and heritage venues, programmers, artists, and curators, locating rarely seen archival collections in new and exciting contexts. Memory Dance aims to build a greater community understanding of forgotten cultural heritage.

Beginning his career in 2008 at the British Library Sound and Vision Archive, Alex/Memory Dance has since collaborated with a host of organisations including The National Jazz Archive, Bridgeman Images, Villon Films, English Folk Dance Song Society, Sheffield Museums, and Goldsmiths University.

He works on historical footage and stills research for independent documentaries such as Eno. (2024), Strike: An Uncivil War (2024), Yorkshire Cop: Police, Racism and Me (2021), and runs an AV digitisation studio in Sheffield. He has worked in the music industry for Warp Records and Rough Trade and has founded two independent record labels. He was born and raised in Hull and is proud of that fact.