DVAA Member since 2026
Alyse James & Sacha Vega
2026 dvaa FellowS
About:
Alyse and Sacha are both artists of color committed to making messy, genre-breaking work that surprises, terrorizes, and demands something of our audiences. This residency offers us the structure and support to deepen our collaboration, challenge our habits, and expand the provocations of W(hite)omen in the Afternoon into an ever stranger, sharper form.
instagram: @alyselyselyse
About alyse james:
Alyse James is a classically trained clown who creates out of an insistent sense of curiosity and existential pondering, inspired by a deep desire to merge otherworldly cosmic clown etherealities with our everyday human failures. Their collaborative theater making and community engagement informs their socially conscious art practice. Their work spans devised theater, original songs, plays, poetry, and improvisational comedy, often incorporating elements of the surreal and absurd. Through vivid imagery, discomfort, and vulnerability, Alyse invites audiences into layered worlds that challenge, provoke, and ask rather than answer.
Alyse is a 2026 BIPOC artist in residence with the Mascher Space. As a performer, they have worked with Pig Iron Theater Company, Theater Unspeakable, Studio 34, Ice Box Project Space, The Drake Theater, and Fringe Arts. As a community engagement manager, they have partnered with Philadelphia Community Bail Fund, Thomas Holme Elementary School, Concilio, Asian Americans United, and various other community organizations.
website: sachavega.com
instagram: @sachachavega
about sacha vega:
Sacha Vega is an artist who collages across movement, poetics, and humor to invite focus into the ideologies that train our bodies to move. She has exhibited or performed at Westbeth Gallery, Movement Research at Judson Memorial Church, Leslie-Lohman Museum, FringeArts, Mason Gross Galleries, Baxter St x CCNY, Java Project, Pelham Art Center, and 99cent Plus Gallery. Additionally, she completed directing an evening-length dance work choreographed by [REDACTED] titled 1-Way Mirror that premiered at 3AM Theatre in June 2025.
She is a 2025/2026 New York Live Arts Fresh Tracks artist and has had residencies at New Dance Alliance’s Satellite Program, LEIMAY’s Incubator Program, Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers, Wassaic Project, Van Noord Van Noord, Casa Tagumerche, Stoneleaf Retreat, and ARTHA Project. She’s hosted workshops at Abrons Art Center, Performance Space NY, FluxFactory, Zimmerli Museum of Art, and coLAB arts. As a performer, Sacha has collaborated with notable artists such as Kim Brandt, Tina Bararian, and Mia Martelli. She has a BFA in Photography from Pratt Institute and an MFA in Visual Art from Mason Gross School of the Arts. She currently teaches media classes at Pratt Institute and Mason Gross School of the Arts.
