About
«My journey of movement finds its root in the flow. The focus of my research is the liquid identity, capturing the momentum, in continuous metamorphosis, passing through breath, bones, and skin, developed in dynamics of suspensions, "falling up", spirals»
Bio
Dance artist born on the southern coast of Italy, currently living in Alabama since 2017, Alessia performs professionally for Edgewood Dance LLC, Sanspointe Dance Company, and the performing arts group Kudzu. She works as an Adjunct Professor of Dance at Birmingham Southern College and the University of Montevallo. She holds a Master's Degree in Performing Arts, Dance, from Université Nice Sophie Antipolis in France. She has many years of experience performing original works at Operas, Dance/Art Festivals, Residencies (NY, Italy and France), Universities of Performing Arts (Prague and Montevallo), and Dance/ Theatre companies in Europe and USA. In 2013, she won the Young Dance Author Prize GD’A Puglia in Italy by Anticorpi XL Network. In 2018 she premiered her choreographic trilogy Surphases at Sarasota Dance Company’s Festival, Space One Eleven Gallery, and Alabama Dance Festival, and in 2019 Things that Make Us Pause by Kudzu at Happy Hour Happening at Forma Arts and Wellness and Magic City Art Connection. In 2020 She presented at Alabama ScreenDance Festival her dance on camera work Fluxo Fixo (2017). She published for logoi.ph philosophical review online two articles on the philosophy of dance 2017-19. She was Company Manager, Sensei, and Senior Artist in Residence at Edgewood Dance LLC Institute for Exceptional Human Functioning in 2019/2020 until the Corona Virus. Currently, she works on the interdisciplinary performative project, based on dance language, "Breath&Bones_FlyingFalling", focused on the spinal cord and connective tissue, crossing the fields of dance and science (somatic, kinesiology & medicine) in collaboration with a local dancer, musician, visual artist, researcher of spinal cord injuries and a Physical Therapist/ Feldenkrais Certified Practitioner. Also, awarded of the Pandemics Atlanta Dancers/Choreographers Grant, she is working at a distance on the dance film "Close to Distance" with an Atlanta based dance artist and two Italian musicians, reflecting the times of the quarantine for COVID 19.