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Allison Costa (she/they) is a transdisciplinary artist based in New York City. Her practice focuses primarily at the intersection of dance and creative technology. Her process-focused and collaborative approach is rooted
in the principles of emergent strategy, glitch feminism, and risk/recovery practice of improvisation, thus characterized by fluidity and adaptability, allowing ideas
to evolve organically and respond to emerging contexts. She is passionate about using movement and technology as tools for critical inquiry with the goal of exploring the potential for symbiosis between these two fields to create with intention and impact.
As such, Allison believes deeply in creative research as a
method for understanding and reconfiguring knowledge through the interrogation
of form. Her art engages with alternate modes of study, embodied experience, and
viewership to interrogate
the evolving nature of systems (whether ecological, social,
or temporal) through an autoethnographic lens.
Allison graduated with honors from Barnard College of Columbia University with a double major in Dance and Computer Science. She also studied at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne Australia, and participated in University of South Florida’s Dance in Paris Program. After graduating, she began working at the Barnard College Movement Lab, where she was able to pursue her own creative research, culminating in the project “Time Enough,” as well as have the opportunity to work with a wide range of artists including LaJuné McMillian, Nona Hendryx, LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, Cari Ann Shim Sham, Mimi Yin, Chisa Hidaka, Norah Zuniga Shaw, and more.
Allison is currently a dancer with SHIFT, Dance. Arts. & Media, Salvatore LaRussa Dance Theatre, and an apprentice with Disagreeable Creatures. She was a 2023-24 resident artist at Fabrica Research Center in Treviso, Itlay. She has also performed / collaborated with Nona Hendryx, Burnt Sugar / Danz Conduction, Choreographic Coding Lab, Francesca Harper,
Dishman + Co. Choreography, Jing Dong, eˉlektron.art, Performa 19, Ars Electronica, and SloMoCo. As a freelance dancer, web designer, technologist, and artist she is always interested in exploring new pathways and partnerships for creative experimentation. Contact her︎︎︎
“Remember to imagine and craft the worlds you cannot live without, just as you dismantle the worlds you cannot live within” -Ruha Benjamin
Allison Costa is a transdisciplinary artist primarily based in New York City. Her practice is process-focused and collaborative and she is always
interested
in exploring new pathways and partnerships for creative experimentation.
