Allegra Herman is a native New Yorker and Bessie Award winning dancer based in Brooklyn, NY. She trained classically at both Manhattan Youth Ballet and the School of American Ballet, where she performed in numerous productions with the New York City Ballet at Lincoln Center. She furthered her contemporary training at prestigious programs such as the Nederlands Dans Theater summer intensive, Springboard Danse Montreal, and b12 Berlin.

Allegra currently performs at The Metropolitan Opera, appearing both as a dancer and an actress. She is also a member of Pigeonwing Dance, under the direction of choreographer Gabrielle Lamb, with whom she’s performed at The New York Botanical Gardens, Wave Hill, The Moody Center at Rice University, Harvard University, and The Asilomar Conference on Recombinant DNA. Allegra has danced with Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, the Little Orchestra Society, and Trainor Dance. She has performed works by Crystal Pite, Doug Varrone, Fernando Melo, Roy Assaf, Peter Chu, George Balanchine, and Jerome Robbins, among others. From 2018-2019, she toured the US with the first national tour of Fiddler on the Roof, directed by Bartlett Sher and choreographed by Hofesh Shechter. Allegra serves as the Head of Contemporary Curriculum and is on the ballet faculty at Rye Ballet Conservatory, and is also a guest teacher at Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet. She holds a degree in French Language and Literature from Columbia University.