Aliyah Mara

About

Aliyah grew up performing, starting in local community-theater productions at age 8. She participated in over 12 productions from ages 8-16. From there Aliyah became a GoGo dancer at age 18, starting at Twin River Casino in Rhode Island and then becoming a resident dancer at club Royale in Boston where she danced for 4 years. She is now a resident dancer with Onyxx Performance Group out of Boston & Team Kitty Koalition out of NYC. Aliyah worked with Rhode Island based performance art company TEN31 from 2017-2019. There she did corporate + private events, conventions & festivals working as a character actor doing many different characters. Aliyah also has experience being body-painted, both live & for video projects. In 2018, Aliyah started a performance art group called the Movement Medicine Collective (see more on her website). Aliyah is a performance artist at heart.

Philosophy

Performance art creates a unique container for deep connection, self expression, collaboration & story-telling. A performance artist has the opportunity to connect with the audience through divine self expression, collaboration with other performers and/or audience members & tell a story with their performance. I have been both the performer; feeding off the energy of the audience & letting that energy fuel that individual performance, and I have been the audience member; making eye-contact with the performer & being sucked into their story or just admiring them in their flow-state. I seek to test the boundaries of what performance art can mean.

Friday 8/25
1:00am w/ Suduaya | CHILLDome 4:30pm w/ BLKSMIITH | Utopia Stage
8:30pm w/ Sunnk | Utopia Stage
11:00pm w/ Aaron Fractal | Dystopia Stage

Saturday 8/26
5:00pm w/ Jossie Telch | Dystopia Stage
6:30pm w/ DRRTYWULVZ | Utopia Stage
8:30pm w/ Grouch n Dub Live Band | Utopia Stage
9:30pm w/ Phaeleh | Utopia Stage
11:00pm w/ The Librarian | Utopia Stage

Sunday 8/27
2:00pm SECRET SET | Utopia Stage