Alyssa Stover (she/her) is New Orleans-based dancer, teacher, and scholar. She began her multi-form dance training in Austin, TX at Tapestry Dance Company and the McCallum High School Fine Arts Academy. She went on to earn a BFA, cum laude, in Dance and History at Tulane University in New Orleans, LA and an MA in Dance Theories & Practices at University of North Carolina-Greensboro. She is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Dance at Ohio State University with a graduate minor in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

Her dissertation research explores New Orleans neo-burlesque through the lens of vintage nostalgia, exploring how nostalgic narratives construct the city as an “othered” space removed from American modernity, and how neo-burlesque performers—especially queer and BIPOC artists—resist these narratives, creating spaces of agency and resistance. She broadly explores how queer, trans, and BIPOC performers in the United States, particularly the South, create work that challenges dominant cultural narratives and uses burlesque as a site of political critique and resistance. Her research spans dance studies, pop culture studies, history, queer and feminist theory.

Alyssa holds an RYT 200 hour yoga teaching certification and has trained in ballet, modern dance, jazz, and improvisation. She has extensive experience experience teaching yoga, ballet, jazz, and contemporary dance to students ages 6-75. Before beginning her doctoral studies, she was an adjunct professor of dance at Loyola University New Orleans, taught yoga for the Tulane University Campus Recreation department and the New Orleans Jewish Community Center. She has taught dance for the New Orleans Dance Academy and Loyola Preparatory Arts Program. She also coached and taught private lessons for teens and adults.

Alyssa has performed and choreographed extensively in the New Orleans community. She choreographed several works for D’Project, a New Orleans contemporary dance company, and co-produced multiple shows in venues across New Orleans, including the Contemporary Arts Center, Art Klub, and the Valiant Theatre, among others.

She has performed with Ballet Hysell, D’Project, Loyola Ballet, and Komenka Ethnic Dance Ensemble, as well as as an independent artist. She has performed all over the United States, as well as traveled abroad to Italy, France, Belgium, and the Netherlands.