AMINA LYDIA VARGAS

Dancer

 

Born in Washington DC, Amina Lydia Vargas began her dance training with Assane Konte at Kankouran West African Dance Company, then attended The Washington School of Ballet @ THEARC, and in 2017 graduated from the Duke Ellington School of the Arts where she studied under Charles Augins, Sandra Fortune-Green, and Katherine Smith. Amina is an alumna of The Ailey School, which she attended for 4 years on an Artistic Merit Scholarship in the Ailey/Fordham BFA and Scholarship programs. In 2022, Amina began working with renowned artist and choreographer Hope Boykin as a Dancer and Rehearsal Director with HopeBoykinDance. Since working with Hope, Amina has performed in the 50th anniversary concert of Leonard Bernstein’s MASS, in a new dance theater work States of Hope, and worked with Grammy Award winners Renee Fleming and Will Liverman as a performer and movement coach at Carnegie Hall. Amina is an alumna of the Jacob’s Pillow 2024  Musical Theatre Performance Ensemble and has performed works by Kevin Iega Jeff, Sekou McMiller, Christopher Huggins, Lyrik Cruz, and Luis Salgado. In 2025, she dancing in her first season with Ronald K. Brown’s EVIDENCE, A Dance Company.