Movement

Allison Jones has a unique movement philosophy that draws from over a decade of professional experience in dance and choreography for the concert stage, camera, and live events, performing for audiences of as few as 20 and as many as 4,000.

 

Allison holds a BFA from the Conservatory of Dance at SUNY Purchase, where she formally studied choreography under Kazuko Hirabayashi (Martha Graham, Juilliard); appeared with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet for five years; presented her choreography on stages including the Shanghai World Expo USA Pavilion; ran her own dance company as Artistic Director & Choreographer (Allison Jones Dance); and was a Founding Choreographer, Co-Creative Director and Curator of the CURRENT SESSIONS, a biannual series held at wild project NYC for emerging choreographers and performance artists (active 2011-2018, working alongside Founder/Creative Producer/Director Alexis Convento).

 

Not one to be limited to one specific stratum of dance performance, Allison has also worked in live entertainment: work which has taken her from the balconies and narrow platforms of high-end NYC nightclubs to the gritty basement floors of long-gone Bushwick DIY venues, which she found equally as thrilling as dancing and choreographing for the audiences of concert dance and opera. As a dance model specializing in everything from high jumps to contorted creature-like floorwork to classical ballet poses, Allison also deeply understands movement for the camera, whether it be still or moving image.

 

Allison’s movement direction work is centered on sensation, energy and presence just as much as it is on shape, form and structure; believing that true embodiment is not something that can be imposed from an external source, but rather must be discovered from within, and further pursued with joyous inquiry and curiosity. She brings this approach to her work as a certified Intimacy Coordinator as well, creating consent-based workspaces for actors engaged in charged scenes of physical intimacy (YOU Season 5, Netflix). After a lifetime of working with dancers, Allison is greatly enjoying the experience of working with actors and models.

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Recent movement credits include Vera Wang / COTY (Dir. Till Janz), Park Avenue (Dir. Gabby Dellal), Burn Book ("a queer reimagining of 'The Crucible'" written by JJ McGlone, Dir. Rory Pelsue) at 122CC in the East Village and Much Ado About Nothing with the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival (Dir. Kholoud Sawaf).