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Saturday, 2/24/2007
BOSTON BUTOH DANCE PERFORMANCE SERIES |
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 Alissa Cardone's dance projects include solo and group compositions, dance film, site-specific and durational street performances, improvisations with experimental music and recently concentrate on stage-based intermedia collaborations with Kinodance, a company she co-founded in Boston in 2004. Highly influenced by Butoh, herinitiation began in 1999 upon the first of two extended residencies training and farming on Min Tanaka's Body Weather Farm in the mountains of central Japan. After meeting Akira Kasai in 2001 she was invited to perform in his international dance project "Nobody Eve" (Tokyo & Kyoto, 2003). She has trained with him in Butoh & Eurythmy ever since in workshops in San Francisco, New York and at Tenshi Kan his school in Tokyo. In 2004 Alissa received a fellowship from Asian Cultural Council where she studied Butoh with Kasai, Nihon Buyo (Japanesetraditional dance) with Minosuke Nishikawa and undertook an extensive collaboration with butoh dancer Yoshito Ohno and contemporary dancer Naoka Uemura on the multi-media production "Wonder Girl" (Tokyo, 2004).Alissa has performed, taught and toured nationally & internationally in Armenia, Russia, Peru, Belgium, France and Japan. Her work has been supported by the LEF Foundation Contemporary Work Fund (2006), Massachusetts Cultural Council (2002, 2005), Asian Cultural Council (2004), New York University Department of Performance Studies (MA 2003) and Concord Academy's Summer Stages Dance where she was a Choreographers Project Fellow in July 2005. Her solo & group work has been presented by Dancenow NYC at Dance Theatre Workshop, Maison Moet Dance Festival (Tokyo, Japan), Mobius (Boston), Soundscape Movement Festival (North Carolina), Boston Cyberarts Festival, Inc. and Gloucester New Arts. Kinodance Company's work has been presented by HIGH Fest International (Armenia), St. Petersburg International Dance Film Festival (Russia), the Monaco Dance Forum (Monte Carlo), Berkshire Fringe Festival, Thorns A.P.E. (Northampton, MA), Drop Dance Collective (Boise, ID) and will be produced by the Bank of America Celebrity Series in Boston 2007. From 1998 - 2002 Alissa was a member of Paula Josa-Jones/Performance Works and has danced as a guest artist with choreographers including Caitlin Corbitt, Bennett Dance, Sara Sweet-Rabideux/hoi polloi, Anna Myer, Nicola Hawkins and Brenda Divelbliss. In 2006 Alissa collaborated with Urban Bush Women's Nora Chipaumire in residence at Tufts University. She is currently on faculty at Longy School of Music/Dalcroze Eurythmics program, and has guest taught at Concord Academy, Boston Ballet, Kannon Dance (St. Petersburg, Russia), Drop Dance Collective (Boise, Idaho), the Dance Complex, and for Bank of America Celebrity Series.  Jessica Rylan is a sound artist and electronic musician who lives and works in the Boston area. She builds unique synthesizers for installations and live performance. Her designs are influenced by plants, and the historically outmoded. Her music incorporates the intuition of folk music with the techniques of the avant-garde. Rylan has performed across the United States, Eastern Canada, Scandinavia, and Western Europe. Highlights included Moscow, Oslo, Lisbon, Antwerp, London, Chicago, L.A., and New York City. Rylan was featured in the PBS documentary Greater Boston Arts in March, 2003. She has created sound installations at the List Visual Arts Center at MIT, the Boston Center for the Arts, Harvard University, and the Berwick Research Institute. She earned an MFA in electronic music from Bard College and has received grants from the Penny McCall Foundation and the LEF Foundation. Her recordings are available on Ultra Eczema and RRRecords. She is currently a Research Affiliate at MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies. |