Allyssa & Raven

Allyssa Trujillo (Allyoop) is a multidisciplinary dancer from Gallup, New Mexico, currently based in Brooklyn, NY. Coming from a mixed cultural and dance background, she embraces her polychromatic identity and considers her style to be a montage of her lived experience, community, and ancestors. Over the past 15 years, Allyssa has found solace and belonging through dance, exploring a variety of dance styles, including contemporary, modern, jazz, ballet, hip hop, waacking, and pole dance. Growing up in Gallup, she received her early dance education at Foundations of Freedom Performing Arts Studio, where she eventually moved her way up to head dance instructor and choreographed her first full production at age 17.

 

In 2022, Allyssa received her BA in Contemporary Dance and a minor in Arts Leadership and Business at the University of New Mexico. While attending college, Allyssa performed in the UNM Contemporary Dance Ensemble, where she studied with and performed works by Francesca Harper, Miguel Guiterrez, Vladimir Conde Reche, Donna Jewell, Amanda Hamp, and others. In 2019, her choreographic work, Voice, was selected to represent UNM at the 2020 Southwest Regional American College Dance Conference. 

 

Allyssa travels the globe, most notably performing off-Broadway in the all indigenous musical, Bear Grease; representing Waacking Team USA at Queen of Disco 2025 in Guangzhou China; modeling and dancing at New York Indigenous Fashion Week 2025, SWAIA Native Fashion Week 2024; co-curating shows with her partner, Raven Bright, at Oregon Shakespeare Festival; performing in immersive theater at Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival and Meow Wolf Santa Fe; and teaching at Konaway Nika Tillicum, MĀORILAND (New Zealand), and Keshet Dance and Center for the Arts.

 

Allyssa believes in sharing her art to connect and foster unity, empathy, and a world of vibrant creativity and culture.