Felicia B Avalos is a tejana storyteller, activist, performer, choreographer, and educator from Huntsville, Texas. Avalos spent her last semester of undergrad (Sam Houston State University) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she began her tango training. In 2012 Felicia spent ten months training with the MASA Dance Journey in Israel where she was able to work with well-known guest artists, perform around the country, and showcase her choreography.

Avalos was accepted into the graduate dance program at The George Washington University, where she received a university fellowship and received her MFA in 2016. Her thesis topic was on Mexican and Central American immigration told through her father’s story of crossing the Mexican border into the United States. Avalos completed a dance residency in 2017 with Unity Space AiR in Australia, where she created her work, The Gods Are Laughing At Us: The Ongoing Water Crisis in Mexico. In 2018 she had the opportunity to work with Mexican American radical performance artist and activist Guillermo Gómez-Peña in Mexico City and perform in his exhibit, Mexican (IN) Documentado.

Felicia moved to New York City in 2018 after being accepted as a company member with Calpulli Mexican Dance Company where she has had the privilege of performing at Jacob’s Pillow, New Victory Theater, Is Sanat Theater in Istanbul, Turkey, and with Mexican American Grammy winner Lila Downs. In 2021 Avalos was accepted into the Arts and Public Policy Department at New York University and obtained an MA in Arts Politics. During her time at NYU she had the honor of learning from well-known artists and activists Kathy Engel, Karen Finley, Anna Deavere Smith, and more. Felicia created a work titled 19,000 Untested Kits centered around the thousands of untested rape kits in Texas after the abortion ban was put in place. Avalos was also a Hear Us 2022 Awardee where she received a grant to begin work on her immigrant fashion show, Runway to the Border. She was invited as guest choreographer for the Theater and Dance department at The George Washington University in the spring of 2023 where she reset her solo, The Gods Are Laughing At Us.

Felicia began working with Mexico Beyond Mariachi in 2022 and traveled on a US tour for seven weeks for their production of Sugar Skull: A Día de Muertos Musical Adventure in the fall of 2023. Since moving to NYC, Felicia has presented her own works for dance festivals in New Jersey and Brooklyn. She continues to research the juxtaposition of cultural and political topics with dance.