Review: Premiere by Allysen Hooks Projects

by David Glen Robinson
Published on April 26, 2025

Two ambitious pieces by Allysen Hooks explore the qualities of dream states, dreamscapes, and dream logic. We want to see more.

  Allysen Hooks Projects, one of the newer dance companies in Austin, was inaugurated  in 2024. Hooks, its producing artistic director, is a native Texan who moved e to NYC arly on and earned degrees from Julliard and Sarah Lawrence, then pursued her dance career in NYC for seventeen years. She brings to Austin is a fresh take on contemporary dance and a future-forward philosophy. As she phrases it, “I construct surrealist narratives aimed to …

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