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Alissa Cardone (choreographer, dancer)"a frightening snowflake under a microscope", Cardone's performances have been said to "release form from the unconscious heart into the conscious mind" and "to occupy time while suspending it." Her work has manifested on both stage and street, in solo and group composition, in dance films and concentrate n interdisciplinary collaborations with Kinodance Company, voted one of Dance Magazine's "25 to Watch" 2008. Cardone trained with Min Tanaka (Body Weather Farm), has collaborated and performed with Paula Josa-Jones/Performance Works, Nora Chipaumire, Elaine Summers & Yoshito Ohno and continues to study and perform for Nijinski of Butoh' Akira Kasai. Cardone was one of five US-based butoh dancers chosen by Kasai for Japan Society's centennial commission "Butoh America" (October 2007) at the New York Butoh Festival. In Japan she was featured in his "Nobody Eve" (Tokyo & Kyoto, 2003) and in 2004 received a fellowship from Asian Cultural Council to study intensively with Kasai, Nihon Buyo with Minosuke Nishikawa and to collaborate with contemporary dancer Naoka Uemura on the multi-media production "Wonder Girl" (Tokyo, 2004).
Cardone has received generous support from Massachusettes Cultural Council (Choreography Finalist 2003, 2006), Somerville Arts Council, LEF Foundation, Trust for Mutual Understanding, Monaco Dance Forum, Concord Academy Summer Stages Dance, NYU Department of Performance Studies (MA '03), Open Society Institute & New England Foundation for the Arts
Regional Dance Development Initiative. Her site-specific & stage-based works have been presented by Maison Moet Dance Festival (Japan), Gloucester New Arts, Soundscape Movement Festival (N. Carolina), DancenowNYC at DTW, the Berkshire Fringe, HIGH Fest (Armenia), St.
Petersburg International Dance Film Festival (Russia), Boston Butoh Series & Mobius among others. A devoted improviser, Cardone has collaborated with musicians such as Masakatsu Takagi, rock guitarist Chris Brokaw, Tatsuya Nakatani, Mike Bullock and most recently Gene Coleman, Ensemble N_JP, avant-punk composer Roger Miller and noise artist Jessica Rylan. Currently on faculty at Longy School of Music's Dalcroze Eurythmics Program, Cardone has guest taught at Concord Academy, Boston Ballet, Drop Dance Collective (Boise, ID), Soundscape
(N. Carolina), Bank America Celebrity Series & has led Butoh-based improvisation labs in Boston, Russia & Philadelphia. |
