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Alicia is a Utah based professional dance artist, performer, educator, and choreographer. Alicia holds a Bachelor of Arts in Dance and a Minor in Theatre Arts from Weber State University where she was awarded the Outstanding Choreographer Award, the Outstanding Graduating Senior in Dance Award and was the first dance major to receive Departmental Honors in Performing Arts. She has training in many forms of modern technique including Limón, Gaga, Graham, and Cunningham. Alicia also has extensive training in jazz, contemporary, tap, ballet, and hip hop. In 2018, Alicia received the Audience Choice Award at the Red Rock Dance Festival for her choreography titled, "Gaslighting Blatherskites". She is currently a part-time professor in the Dance Program at Weber State University, an instructor for Ballet West’s I•CAN•DO arts in education program, on faculty at Groove the Academy, a company member with Cat + Fish Dances (SLC, UT), and is the Co-Founder for Meraki Dance Theatre. Alicia has performed professionally as a dancer with the Utah Opera, Repertory Dance Theatre (SLC, UT), Ogden MoveMEANT Collective (Ogden, UT), Kairos Dance Company of LA, at Creators Grid and Monday Movement Lab, and guest performed at the College of Southern Nevada. She has choreographed for WSU’s Musical Theatre Program, presented her own choreography at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center (SLC, UT), the Regent Street Black Box at the Eccles (SLC, UT), the Dance Mission Theatre in San Francisco, California, the College of Southern Nevada, as well as the Womankind Choreography Festival (SLC,UT), Dance in the Desert Festival (Las Vegas, NV), Red Rock Dance Festival (St. George, UT) and Rocky Mountain Choreography Festival (Ogden, UT). “Not Alone”, a duet that she co-choreographed with Carrie Lee Miles took the 2nd Place Judges Choice Award at the 2015 Rocky Mountain Choreography Festival. She served on the Board of Directors for the Utah Dance Education Organization for two years as the Professional Development Director, and has been a guest choreographer and teacher for several schools along the Wasatch Front. She's provided constructive feedback as an adjudicator for the Utah High School Dance Festival, Davis Choreographic Fest and Aspire Dance Pro. Alicia has a great love for dance, and enjoys sharing it through performing, choreographing, and teaching dance.