Allysen Hooks holds a BFA from The Juilliard School and an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College where she received the Bessie Schönberg Scholarship Award and choreographic mentorship from John Jasperse and Beth Gill. Allysen's choreographic work has been presented at Austin Dance Festival, Tangente (Montréal), Arts On Site (NYC), commissioned for Contemporary Dance Wyoming, Indiana University, HSPVA (Houston), and as solos for graduating students at Barnard College, Ailey/Fordham, and The Juilliard School. She is a two-time grant recipient from The National YoungArts Alumni Organization. As a member of GALLIM (2012-2021) under the direction of Andrea Miller, Allysen collaborated in new creations, performed, taught, and set repertory nationally and internationally. She has had the privilege of performing with GALLIM at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Met Breuer, The Joyce Theater, Guggenheim Museum, The Kennedy Center, Ted Shawn Theater (Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival), Theatre National de Chaillot (Paris), Teatre Grec (Barcelona), Theatre National du Luxembourg, Teatro Nacional de Panama, Colours Festival (Stuttgart), Spoleto Festival (Charleston) among others. She was named Creative Associate to Miller and contributed to commissions at numerous companies and institutions including English National Ballet, Martha Graham Dance Company, Kyle Abraham A.I.M., Ailey II, Rambert2, Atlanta Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet, Ballet Hispánico, The Juilliard School, and Boston Conservatory. Allysen danced in Jodi Melnick’s These Five as part of Dichotomous Being: An Evening of Taylor Stanley at Jacob’s Pillow (2022). She has worked with choreographer John Heginbotham, as adjunct faculty at Rutgers University, and was an NFAA Arts Finalist in Modern Dance in 2006.