Biography:

Allyson Green choreographer and visual artist, grew up on the border of Mexico, in El Paso, Texas. She received a BFA cum laude in Visual Art (with Dance minor) from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. In 1999, Ms. Green was awarded the Jacob K. Javits Fellowship for graduate studies by the National Department of Education. She received her MFA in Choreography from the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee in 2001, where she was named the Fine Arts Graduate student of the decade in 2005. Based in New York from 1986-2001, she performed with the companies of Yoshiko Chuma SOHK, Charles Moulton, Doug Varone, Randy Warshaw, and Bill Young. She has created collaborative works with international choreographers Ben Wright (UK), José Navas (Montreal), Dominique Porte (France) Meg Stuart (Belgium), and Cosmin Manolescu (Romania). Collaborations over seven years with her husband visual artist Peter Terezakis have explored the merging of art, technology and dance in site-specific installations. Her company, Allyson Green Dance, has been presented to critical acclaim in Austria, Brazil, Belgium, Canada, France, Hungary, Macedonia, Mexico, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Venezuela, and throughout the United States, including yearly seasons in New York since 1991. Upcoming (June 2006) she will be presented in the International Arts and Ideas Festival in New Haven, CT and in a season at the Danspace Project in New York City. Her choreography has been presented in San Diego annually since 2003 at the San Diego Museum of Art, and was the first dance company presented as part of the prestigious La Jolla Music SummerFest Festival in 2005, and upcoming in August 2006.

Allyson Green has been awarded support through grants from Culturgest, Gestao de Espaços Culturais, Lisbon, Portugal (1993, 2004); the Danspace Project Commissioning Initiative of the Joyce Mertz Gilmore Foundation (1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2006); the First Light Commission by Dance Theater Workshop with funding by the Jerome Foundation of St. Paul, MN (1992, 1994, 1997); the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Quebec (1996, 1998); The Fund for U.S. Artists at International Festivals, a Public/Private Partnership of the U.S. Department of State, The National Endowment for the Arts, The Rockefeller Foundation and the Pew Charitable Trusts (2000, 2002), and Face the Music and Dance: A Commission of Symphony Space (2001). Ms. Green's work has been particularly influenced by her teaching and choreographic research in East/Central Europe. She has been the recipient of eight fellowships from The Suitcase Fund: A project of Ideas and Means in Cross-Cultural Artist Relations, an initiative created by Dance Theater Workshop with major funding from the Rockefeller Foundation. These fellowships for residencies took place in Brazil (1992), Macedonia (1998, 1999, 2005) the Slovak and Czech Republics (1999, 2000) and Romania (2003, 2004). In December 2003, she was the co-curator, (with Danspace Project and Dance Theater Workshop, NY) of the Central Station Dance/Theater Festival, bringing 11 companies from seven East European countries to the United States for the first time. She directed the week long festival that brought four companies from Croatia, Romania and Estonia to three venues in San Diego. She is the recipient of a 2006 ArtsLink fellowship for an upcoming residency in Riga, Latvia and Moscow, Russia in September 2006.

In the fall of 2001, Ms. Green became an Assistant Professor of Dance at San Diego State University, San Diego and was named the Outstanding Faculty Member in the College of Fine Arts in 2003. In July 2003 she joined the faculty as Associate Professor of Theatre and Dance at the University of California, San Diego, where she is helping to create a new MFA program in Dance Theatre.

In addition to her work in dance and education, Ms. Green maintained an active visual arts career as a painter and an award-winning graphic designer for numerous NYC arts organizations and PBS television. Ms. Green has served on the Danspace Project Artist Advisory Board, New York from 1996 -2002, and was the interim Artistic Director of Sushi Performance and Visual Art from 2003-5, where she was named as one of the top four arts leaders in San Diego in 2004 by the Union Tribune.

Allyson Green Dance, has been presented to critical acclaim in Austria, Brazil, Belgium, Canada, France, Hungary, Macedonia, Mexico, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Venezuela, and throughout the United States including yearly seasons in New York. Her choreography has been awarded support through grants from Culturgest, Gestao de Espaços Culturais, Lisbon, Portugal (1993, 2004); the Danspace Project Commissioning Initiative of the Joyce Mertz Gilmore Foundation (1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2006); the First Light Commission by Dance Theater Workshop with funding by the Jerome Foundation of St. Paul, MN (1992, 1994, 1997); the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Quebec (1996, 1998); The Fund for U.S. Artists at International Festivals, a Public/Private Partnership of the U.S. Department of State, The National Endowment for the Arts, The Rockefeller Foundation and the Pew Charitable Trusts (2000, 2002), and Face the Music and Dance: A Commission of Symphony Space (2001). Ms. Green’s work has been particularly influenced by her teaching and choreographic research in East/Central Europe. She has been the recipient of seven fellowships from The Suitcase Fund: A project of Ideas and Means in Cross-Cultural Artist Relations, an initiative created by Dance Theater Workshop with major funding from the Rockefeller Foundation. These fellowships for residencies creating new works on international dancers took place in Brazil (1992), Macedonia (1998, 1999, 2005) the Slovak and Czech Republics (1999, 2000) and Romania (2003, 2004).

Ms. Green was a regular faculty member of Movement Research and Danspace Inc. in New York and for four years was the choreographer in residence at Bucknell University, PA. She has been a frequent guest faculty at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, North Carolina School of the Arts, UW/Milwaukee, and the University of Florida. In the fall of 2001, Ms. Green became an Assistant Professor of Dance at San Diego State University, San Diego and was named the Outstanding Faculty Member in the College of Fine Arts in 2003. In July 2003 she joined the faculty of the University of California, San Diego, where she is helping to create a new MFA program in choreography and performance.

In addition to her work in dance and education, Ms. Green maintained an active visual arts career as a painter and an award-winning graphic designer for numerous arts organizations and PBS television. Her collaborations with visual artist Peter Terezakis investigate the merging of dance with interactive technology.

Ms. Green has served on the Danspace Project Artist Advisory Board, New York from 1996 to the present, and was the interim Artistic Director of Sushi Performance and Visual Art from 2003-5, where she was named one of the top four arts leaders in San Diego in 2004 by the Union Tribune.