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Anna-Alisa Belous - Costume Designer
Anna-Alisa was born in Leningrad (St. Petersburg, Russia) and received her MFA in Interior Design and Textiles from Saint Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design. In 1991, she relocated to the United States, where she obtained her MFA in Theatre Arts from Brandeis University. Anna-Alisa has lived in New York City since 2001 and works as a freelance costume designer, scene painter, set designer, and stylist.
As a collaborator Anna-Alisa has years of experience working in dance, theater, and opera. She has also specialized in costume restoration, prop-making, wig-making, and theatrical make-up.
Since 2001, Anna-Alisa has been resident costume and set designer for Amanda Selwyn Dance Theatre in NYC. She has been collaborating with Carolyn Dorfman Dance since 2009 and with Philadanco since 2005. She has also designed costumes for Nai-Ni Chen, Dusan Tynek Dance Theatre, and Rebecca Kelly Ballet. Anna-Alisa was the stylist and costume designer for WGBH Christmas Celtic Sojourn from its 2003 launch to its final performance in 2021.
Her costume design credits include the Duke University Theatre Studies Department, LAB Theater, Modus Opera, Actors’ Shakespeare Project (MA), Portland Stage Company (ME), Boston Playwrights Theater (MA), Opera Naples (FL), Alvin Ailey School, The Juilliard School, Manhattan School of Music Opera Department, The New School for Drama, Metropolitan Ballet Academy and Company (PA), North Country Ballet Ensemble, and Blessed Unrest, both as set and costume designer. She has also assisted on projects at the following venues: Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), Paul Taylor Dance Co., Washington Ballet, Boston Ballet, Santa Fe Opera, American Repertory Theater, Gotham Chamber Opera, Columbia University, and Milwaukee Ballet. Anna-Alisa has made and restored costumes for the National Nutcracker Ballet Tour since 2017.
Anna-Alisa designed the Martha Graham Company dancers’ costumes for the 100th Anniversary Graham concert presented by ArtPhilly Festival, and she regularly re-makes and restores the costumes for the company’s other ballets.
Anna-Alisa enjoys working with students and practicing her craft in college settings. She worked at the Marymount Manhattan College Dance Department from 2011 to 2022 and was resident costume designer for the Williams College Dance Department from 2011 to 2017. She taught Costume for Dance at Marymount Manhattan, MFA Costume Rendering Techniques at Brandeis University, and has been giving invited lectures at Adelphi University since 2013.
