ALYSSA MYERS

Alyssa Myers is an NYC based choreographer and a dancer with Terre Dance Collective. Since graduating from USC Kaufman in 2020, she has created choreographic works for MOVE|NYC|, Joffrey Dance Academy, Utah Metropolitan Ballet, Falco Dance Company, Traverse City Dance Project, and Terre Dance Collective. Her work has been shown in New York theaters such as Gibney 280, Arts on Site, NYLA, Dixon Place, Ailey Citigroup Theater, and Paul Taylor Studios. She has received the emerging and professional Choreography Recognition Award at Regional Dance of America/Pacific(‘16) and The Ballet Alliance Festival(‘24). Alyssa has performed works by William Forsythe, Jiří Kylián, Azure Barton, George Balanchine and Crystal Pite as a member of the 2nd graduating class at USC Kaufman. In the spring of 2022, she was an artistic collaborator for Jodie Gate’s NYU Residency Fellowship serving to research inclusivity and identity within balletic structures. She also was the artistic recipient of Converge2Emerge’s fellowship program in 2022. She is on faculty with Downtown Dance Factory as a ballet teacher and rehearsal coach. Her previous training includes her time as a pre-professional company member of Ballet Yuma, and summer intensive student at Paul Taylor, Houston Ballet Academy, the RDA’s National Choreography Intensive, and Orsolina28 Pite/Forsythe. Most of all, Alyssa strives to positively influence others’ capacity to embrace collaborative models and collective discovery through experiencing movement workshops, performances, and intentional discussion.