About:

alyssa faye

Alyssa Faye (she/her) is a freelance choreographer/director/dance artist based in Brooklyn, NY. She was a recent resident of Mare Nostrum Element’s Emerging Choreographers Series, where she premiered a new section of her ongoing project, “motherland,” at LaGuardia Performing Arts Center in April 2022. It was performed again in the Dance Bloc Festival at Dixon Place, in November 2022. Her newest work, “Aquarius,” was performed in November 2022 as a part of CreateART’s Works in Progress Showcase. She graduated from The Boston Conservatory, where she received a BFA in Contemporary Dance. Upon moving to New York, she performed with Haus of Pvmnt and choreographer Abigail Corrigan at venues such as Triskelion Arts, Hudson Guild Theater, and WaxWorks. Her most recent choreographic work has been showcased throughout 2019 at Uptown Rising Dance Festival, WaxWorks, APEX at Peridance, and Dumbo Dance Festival. She has also choreographed and produced two works for The Boston Conservatory mainstage, and participated in collaborative projects around the Boston area.

Statement

I am a movement artist, relaying action through practices of choreographing, directing, dancing, acting, singing, and writing. 

My practice is always incomplete, because movement is born without dying. It continuously articulates, animates, and negotiates experience through a matter and tactility we all have access to. The body is the first place we are. It’s a form meant to stretch, bend, and collapse; we seed conflict here, we unearth resolution. I create movement by first considering behavior: the engine of action. Here, I am constantly searching for the thick of meaning; parsing through contradictions, collisions, disruptions, divisions. For every clue I find, a new question unravels, and my heartbeat quickens. I locate myself on this edge–the verge of the unknown, eyes forward, breath held.

Then I look for context, a sense of place. Where are we before we slip into memory? Where are we after? What are the tones, textures, sights, sounds, and rhythms we hold before we forward our body, again and again and again? 

I’m left with this: physical legacies. They are of us, beyond us, and are the only things we can lay claim to. My interest lies in the person of this legacy–in you and the one next to you, in ancestors and future beings, in me. What can I do that is more important than ask for your story? Where you come from? Where you’re going? What greater project than servicing the memory, locality, and relation of us, and bringing those intersections to the world through action? 

I aim to observe and create physical legacies. These legacies are contained, yet transcendent. They are of space, but leave behind radical resonance. The body becomes–as it always has been and continues to be–our most sacred, multiplicitous, and transformative act.