Alicia Holloway

Alicia Mae Holloway (born August 31, 1996) is an American ballerina and television personality. Holloway danced as an apprentice with the Suzanne Farrell Ballet before joining the corps de ballet at Dance Theatre of Harlem. She competed in the Miss West Virginia pageant in 2019 and the 25th season of the American dating reality television series The Bachelor in 2020.

Early life and dance training Holloway was born on August 31, 1996, in Morgantown, West Virginia. She says she is of African-American, Cherokee, and Italian American descent.

She began studying dance when she was three years old at the Kate and Company Studio and Morgantown Dance Studio in West Virginia. Holloway went on to attend Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet and the University of North Carolina School of the Arts's boarding school. She later joined Dance Theatre of Harlem, where she has danced in ballets by Robert Garland, Elena Kunikova, and Nacho Duato. She has been with Dance Theatre of Harlem for seven seasons. As a dancer, she performed on stage with Aretha Franklin.

In October 2022, Holloway taught ballet in Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. In December 2022, she performed, as a guest artist, as the Sugar Plum Fairy with Greensboro Ballet in The Nutcracker.

In 2023, she was featured, in ballet costume, on the cover of People'''s Health Issue for Winter/Spring 2023. In 2019, Holloway competed in the Miss West Virginia beauty pageant. She was the first professional ballerina to ever compete on the show. She also went viral for a series of videos she made about a potential stalker attempting to break into her hotel room.

After competing on The Bachelor'', Holloway was in a relationship with Juan Matallana.