ALISSA CARDONE: I am a contemporary dance maker working specifically with improvisation, intermedia and Butoh. My approach is heavily influenced by researches in Japan where since 1999 I have been training and performing in the Butoh lineage first with Min Tanaka (Body Weather Farm) and since 2001 with Akira Kasai. My curiosity in movement extends into other art forms engaging me in collaborative processes that destabilize, sparking unexpected visions to create new ways of seeing and experiencing dance. My projects have included improvisational performances with live musicians, solo & group choreographies, dance film and have recently concentrated on Kinodance Company which creates live intermedia performance works seamlessly integrating film, light, sound and kinetic sets. I see my work in dance and my explorations in intermedia performance forms as a path towards possibility in seeing and feeling movement and its potential for empowerment and change.

I have had the great pleasure to collaborate and/or perform with musicians: Seth Barger, Bobby McFerrin, Tatsuya Nakatani, Chris Brokaw, Mike Bullock, Jonathan Vincent, Masakatsu Takagi, Geoff Farina; choreographers: Akira Kasai, Paula Josa-Jones, Norah Chipaumire (Urban Bush Women), Brenda Divelbliss, Nicola Hawkins, Sara Sweet-Rabideux, Christine Bennett, Wendy Jehlen; visual artists: Jodi Buonanno & Dedalus Wainwright; and my creative soulmate, the filmmaker & curator Alla Kovgan.