Alysia received her BA in Dance Education from Goucher College in Maryland and her MFA from the University of Utah in modern dance. Her thesis research surrounded trends in Deaf education, artistic collaboration and in depth study of Deaf Culture a
...MoreAlysia received her BA in Dance Education from Goucher College in Maryland and her MFA from the University of Utah in modern dance. Her thesis research surrounded trends in Deaf education, artistic collaboration and in depth study of Deaf Culture as a cultural and linguistic minority group. She co-founded a non-profit dance company in Salt Lake City called Paradigm Dance Project (PDP). Alysia’s past and current work is a merge of American Sign Language (ASL) and modern dance. She is fascinated by the juxtaposition of ASL, a very specific movement language paired with modern dance, an abstract form of movement as communication. The synthesis of these two movement languages drives her current artistic and creative research, including her community based work in Salt Lake City, UT. She has taught at the University of Utah, Emerson, DeSales University and University of Virginia as a guest lecturer and Bridgewater State College as a Visiting Lecturer. She has presented her work involving dance and Deaf Culture, most recently at the World Dance Alliance Global Assembly in NYC as well as at the National Dance Educator Conference in Arizona. Currently, she is teaching at Weber State University and is a freelance ASL/English interpreter.
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