Alyssia Farias

Alyssia is a freelance performer and collaborator based in New Jersey and New York City. ​

Alyssia Farias [Bedford, New Hampshire] began her dance training in New England and graduated Summa cum Laude from Montclair State University where she has performed works by Dolly Sfeir, Yusha-Marie Sorzano, André Tyson, Cameron McKinney, and Leslie Kraus. Farias has also trained closely with Doug Varone and Dancers, Takehiro Ueyama, Stephanie Batten Bland, Christian von Howard and Karen Gayle. They have both performed and presented work at Dixon Place, the Montclair Dance Festival, PhysFest, Koresh Artist Showcase and Modern Moves.

Currently, she performs with Freespace Dance and Opus//The Company. Alyssia enjoys collaborating, choreographing and performing with musicians and recently served as assistant choreographer to Donna Scro Samori in the opera La Calisto.