Alethia Antonia is a UK-based freelance choreographer, performer, teacher and researcher, who trained at London Contemporary Dance School, Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance and Northern School of Contemporary Dance.
As a performer, she has toured internationally and has worked with companies such as Russell Maliphant Dance Company, James Wilton Dance, James Cousins Company, VOXED – Wayne Parsons, Tribe//, Flexer and Sandiland, Matsena Productions, Chhaya Collective, Heather Walrond Company, and Extended Play (Jamaal Burkmar), amongst others.
Alethia’s choreographic work and academic research currently question artistic and socio-political issues in relation to race, gender, mental health and trauma, in particular connection with the idea of self-authoring feminine blackness, decolonisation, and accessibility. Her choreographic work has been supported by The Place, Dance4, Yorkshire Dance, Northern School of Contemporary Dance, Leeds Dance Partnership, and has been performed at venues such as The Place, Yorkshire Dance, York Theatre Royal and Fashion Space Gallery. She is currently a Work Place Artist at The Place
As a teacher, she has taught around the country and abroad for those such as Scottish Dance Theatre, Phoenix Dance Theatre, Trinity Laban, The Place, London Contemporary Dance School, Dance4, Northern School of Contemporary Dance, Kingston University, and Accademia Balletto Roma.