Alissa Cardone 

Alissa has been creating and supporting dance in the Boston area since 1998 as a performer, organizer, dance maker, curator, educator, and mentor. Her work spans solo and group compositions, site-specific and durational street performances, improvisations with experimental music, experimental sound design and in 1999 she co-founded the intermedia performance collaborative, Kinodance Company, with filmmaker Alla Kovgan and set designer Dedalus Wainwright, creating intermedia stage performances, immersive installations, and dance films. Kinodance was named one of Dance Magazine's "25-to-watch" and was presented nationally and internationally by Bank of America Celebrity Series, World Music CrashARTS, the Redfern Arts Center at Keene State College, Onstage at Connecticut College, Monaco Dance Forum, the Berkshire Fringe Festival, Summer Stages Dance Festival, Boston Cyberarts Festival and internationally in Russia and Armenia. A company member of Paula Josa-Jones/Performance Works from 1998-2003, she has also performed in projects directed by Xavier Le Roy, Ann Carlson, Nora Chipaumire, Nell Breyer, Pe Vermeersch/Radical Hearts, Anna Myer, Laurie McLeod, Wendy Jehlen, Sara Sweet Rabideux, and Michael Sakamoto, and collaborated over many years with Ingrid Schatz and Jimena Bermejo. In Japan, Alissa trained with Min Tanaka (Body Weather Farm), performed with “Nijinski of Butoh” Akira Kasai, and collaborated with Yoshito Ohno and Naoka Uemura. She has won numerous grants and awards including from Baryshnikov Arts Center, Summer Stages Dance, Trust for Mutual Understanding, Asian Cultural Council, LEF Foundation, Massachusetts Cultural Council (Fellowship in Choreography), NEFA, The Boston Foundation, and NDP.

For the past 10 years, since becoming a mother, Alissa has been dedicated to training pre-professional dancers at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee, cultivating a teaching practice rooted in somatics, experiential anatomy, postmodern movement art forms, and digital performance technologies. She is currently working towards certifications in BodyMindDancing™ with Dr. Martha Eddy, BodyMind Centering®, and is a certified Level 1 Essentrics™ instructor.

Since joining Mobius in 2019, she’s continued an interest in using new technology to tackle classic themes. Her recent projects include the revival of the Disappearing Woman with LAND Collective (David R. Gammons, Lorraine Chapman, Nell Breyer), a solo dance to a poem by Sawako Nakayasu for the Mobius Butoh Festival (postponed due to the pandemic), the development of a performance character referred to as “the golden baby” and the creation of digital memes in collaboration with visual artist Nell Breyer.

website: kinodance.org