Dance Portfolio
Bio
Aleah Feggins, a Washington D.C native, began training at age 7 with The Washington School of Ballet. Aleah trained in a wide range of styles which includes West African dances, Modern, Classical Ballet, Jazz, Hip-Hop, and Flamenco. Feggins attended Benjamin Banneker Academic High School in D.C., and graduated in 2022 which allowed her to hone in on her creative and artistic practices early. She relocated to Philadelphia to pursue her BFA in Dance at Temple University. Since relocating to Philadelphia, Aleah has had opportunities to perform in many places both on and off Temple’s campus, and in many festivals such as the Philadelphia Fringe Festival and Connecticut’s Juneteenth Festival. Aleah’s passion for teaching has allowed her to give quality dance education to young aspiring dancers at Monarch Dance Academy along with being a recurring guest teacher at ZD Dance Academy in Lanham, MD, and other studios. Outside of being a performer and an educator, Aleah has also had the chance to choreograph many of her own works, which include Mumbaa's Free Fall music video and choreography for Shawna Moon’s set for Care Free Black Girl Festival. As Aleah sets to graduate this Spring, she is focused on performing and choreographing for artists, with long-term goals of opening her own dance studio.
Artist Statement
From a place that can’t compete with my vision, I, Aleah Feggins, have known as a young girl who I wanted to be, but not where I am going. Through endless cycles of the love and hate of dance, I continue on this path not just for myself, but for that little girl who watched the pas de deuxs on tv, the girl who would do anything to see her family smile, that little girl who knew how big her heart, was she wanted to share it to the world, through dance and outreach. To know me is to visualize my grandmother cheering from Heaven’s gates to continue my journey. To understand me is to allow yourself to bask in the versatility and the heart and soul of how dance feels. To dance with me feels like falling in and out of anxiousness and failure to become that proof of life, substance, and growth. Not perfection, just growth, and being inspired by the influences of my experiences and mentors that hold up my dance world. Creatives like myself don’t grow overnight; they fight, they’re bold, and they are determined to get the job done, to later bask in the home they have created for themselves. I believe that to have a vision is one thing, but to create one is another dimension that can make or break me. It’s okay to feel, it’s okay to acknowledge, and it’s okay to create that peace; this is why I dance.
