ABOUT!

"The modern dance world would stagnate if it weren't for artists like Alisia Waller... Waller's program of new dances, performance pieces and videos... demonstrated a fresh, original voice that fills a void in the Boston modern dance scene." --Theodore Bale

The And So No Sin Performance Troupe was co-founded in 1997 by Alisia L. L. Waller. Over the past twelve years And So No Sin has created nearly fifty original performance works in the Boston area encompassing a broad spectrum of experimental art. The work of the troupe and the individual artistic excellence of the director have both been recognized throughout this period with opportunities such as a performance commission from the Fort Point Cultural Coalition, invitations to present work in international performance festivals (Mobius International Festival of Performance Art, the upcoming Open Arts Festival in Beijing), receiving a 2008 Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship in Choreography, being asked to participate in the MIFPA symposium at the Museum of Fine Arts, becoming a member of the Mobius Artists Group, being invited to give an artists talk at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and many invitations to act as guest director, choreographer or consultant for Boston area artists and companies.

Alisia Waller is a fight and dance choreographer, physical comedian, dancer, drag performer, stage fighter, video and performance artist and sometime sculptor and comix artist. Ms. Waller studied dance as a child in Washington state and the Caribbean, and in her early teens joined the Inwood Ballet Company of West Virginia and studied modern dance under Liz Bergman at the Conservatory of Shenandoah University. She studied performance art with Mari Novotny-Jones at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (where she joined the Museum School Cheerleaders, lecturing with them at Universities and touring to Washington DC) and performed in an experimental musical in Philadelphia.

The And So No Sin Performance Troupe is made up of an enthusiastic group of professional and amateur performers and collaborators brought together under the artistic direction of Alisia L. L. Waller. And So No Sin is dedicated to the creation and performance of original works of art drawing from the traditions of postmodern dance, stage combat, pantomime, ballet, performance art and theatrical dance. We strive to create works that challenge the boundaries between artistic disciplines, the barrier between audience and performer and the distinctions between performance and life. And So No Sin may at any given time present street performances, ballet, video art, private works for an "audience of one," choreographed proscenium-staged dances, ultra-violent combat, drag, indefinably liminal performance experiments, carefully curated art celebrations, rituals, slapstick comedy or anything in between. At the core of the troupe and Ms. Waller's work is a desire to create art with pleasure, humour and purpose; to explore, share and learn from a state of passionate "not-knowing" and whatever fragments of clarity may be found therein.

Please feel free to contact our director Alisia Waller for more information or to be added to our email list.