About:
alyssa faye
Alyssa Faye (she/her) is a choreographer/director/dancer/actor based in Brooklyn, NY. She works within various creative domains, including concert dance, theatre, and film.
She was a resident of Mare Nostrum Element’s Emerging Choreographers Series, in which she premiered and performed in a section of her ongoing project, “motherland,” at LaGuardia Performing Arts Center. It was performed again as part of the Dance Bloc Festival at Dixon Place the following fall. Her latest work, “Aquarius,” was performed as a part of CreateART’s Works in Progress Showcase, while her other past choreographic work has been showcased at Uptown Rising Dance Festival, WaxWorks, APEX at Peridance, and Dumbo Dance Festival.
She has also collaborated as a choreographer/movement director with LA-based filmmaker Steven Markowitz on two short films titled “A Night in Flames,” and “Hands of Flame;” the latter which was the recipient of Best Animation at various festivals including Sedona Film Festival, Carmel Film Festival, Trinity Film Festival, and The Buffalo Niagara Film Festival.
Her performance credits include work with Haus of Pvmnt, Bombshell Dance Project, and choreographer Abigail Corrigan at venues such as Triskelion Arts, Gibney Theater, and Hudson Guild Theater. She graduated from The Boston Conservatory where she received a BFA in Contemporary Dance.
artist Statement
I am a movement artist, relaying action through practices of choreography, dance-theatre, theatre performance, dramaturgy, writing, and movement direction.
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.