Alyssa Lucas is a Filipina-American choreographer, dancer, educator, and fashion designer. She began dancing at the ripe age of three, training at the Royal Dance Academy (Suwanee, GA) under the direction of Sarah Haslock. There, Alyssa completed the globally recognized Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) Ballet curriculum. Simultaneously, she trained in Jazz, Contemporary, Horton, Graham, and Hip-Hop with the influential mentorship of Cici Kelley and Stephan Isijia Reynolds.
In May 2025, she received her BFA in Contemporary Dance from the Boston Conservatory at Berklee. There, she worked with renowned artists: Hope Boykin, Jennifer Archibald, Joe Gonzalez, Kurt Douglas, John Lam, and Alissa Cardone. Over the course of her collegiate career, she created over 9 works, founded Low Stakes an interdisciplinary improv club, and studied experimental dance at Accademia Dell’Arte in Arezzo, Italy. In 2023, she had her directorial debut with the support of Theater in the Open; Concrete Bouquet: A Day of Dance in Nature was a heart-felt performance that highlighted Nature’s resilience and the urgency of climate change.
In September, Alyssa presented Soul-tied, a site specific performance and abstraction of String Theory, for the Goat Farm’s annual SITE Festival. In March, she performed Dire ug Diha, a work by Jerigray Eduave rooted in Filipino indigenous dance. She is a core faculty member at Creative Movement and Dance and Arseneau Dance Academy. Alyssa believes in using dance as a vessel for activism, building community, and creating hope-filled visions for our future; she instills these values into all of her endeavors.