Aaliyah Fisher is a Jamaican American performer and creator, born and raised in New York, and currently based between Philadelphia and New York City. She began her professional training with Eleone Dance Unlimited, a Philadelphia-based pre-professional company, before continuing at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy (AMDA) in New York City, where she earned a Professional Dance Conservatory Certificate in 2021. Aaliyah furthered her education at AMDA’s Los Angeles campus in pursuit of a BFA in Dance. In 2022, she returned to Philadelphia to join Philadanco’s second company under the direction of Donald T. Lunsford II.
During her time there, she trained with acclaimed artists such as Kim Bears-Bailey, Deborah Manning, Tracy Vogt, Milton Myers, Bernard Gaddis, and Christopher Huggins. Simultaneously, she enrolled in the BFA in Dance program at the University of the Arts. Following the university’s closure in 2024, Aaliyah completed her degree at Bennington College, graduating in May 2025 under the direction of Donna Faye Burchfield. After graduating, she began her first season with Ronald K Brown’s/EVIDENCE, A Dance Company. Now, Aaliyah continues to evolve her commitment to performing by training and thinking critically about how her access to the world of dance will impact the masses in a proactive way.
