Alisia L. L. Waller is a singular, unique artist we treasure in the Mobius
Artists Group. She’s a gregarious person who can adapt to any situation
and bring new light to it. We know this well at Mobius, and joke with
earnestness that she knows the organization inside/out. This is because
over a ten-plus year period she has done everything, starting out as a
volunteer, then a staff person, a member of the Board of Directors, and
now as a Mobius Artists Group member the past four years.

Her trajectory as an artist is also storied and unique. A prodigy of
sorts, she graduated college early and set forth on an anachronistic
choreographic path. Her work is unconventional, opens new sensitivities
and meanings, and has surprised many audiences here in Boston and abroad,
as she recently returned from the Open Art Festival in China.

Her upcoming concert, “Dancing the Beast,” is an evening-length
production, the culmination of over a year’s work since she received the
prestigious Massachusetts Cultural Council Choreography fellowship award
in 2008. Over the past year she has produced three other dances that have
been shown at the Dance Complex and as part of the new Juddertone music
and dance series. You can read Aaron Howland’s profile of Alisia and
review of them, "Alisia L L Waller Gives Me Nightmares," in Big, Red, and
Shiny here:

Alisia’s own eloquent statement about her development and work,
“Choreography As Benediction or: Creating Dances When You Cannot Dance,”
is currently expressed on the Massachusetts Cultural Council’s website
here:

She's in the news and this is her time. I think we are in for many
surprises and delights, heroes and monsters at her concert this weekend.
With nightmares optional.
See you there.

Jed Speare,
Director