In 1989, Ms. Fisher-Harrell fulfilled her life-long dream and joined the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater where she is currently a principal dancer. During her 13 year tenure at AAADT, she has been featured in works of Ailvin Ailey, Robert Battle, Talley Beatty, Ron K. Brown, John Butler, Donald Byrd, Ulysses Dove, George Faison, Rennie Harris, Geoffrey Holder, Judith Jamison, Louis Johnson, Alonzo King, Donald McKayle, Elisa Monte, Jennifer Muller, David Parsons, and Dwight Rhoden just to name but a few. She has been all over the United States as well as Canada, Japan, China, Israel, Egypt, South Africa, Cyprus, Greece, Spain, France, Germany, Italy, Denmark, Poland, The Netherlands, England, Brazil, and Chile, In addition to performing, she has also enjoyed teaching company ballet classes as well as teaching master classes and workshops to adults and children of all ages all over the world.
On January 28, 2004, Ms. Fisher-Harrell was featured in a two-page article, “On Her toes,” in the Baltimore Sun Newspaper. The article followed a day in her life as an Alvin Ailey dancer, wife, mother, and Baltimorean that commutes to work in New York.
Ms. Fisher-Harrell has received many awards including first place in the
National ACT-SO Competition sponsored by the NAACP. She was a finalist in
the Arts Recognition and Talent Search in Miami, FL and has received four
Individual Artist citations from the State of Maryland. Some of her special
performances include, the White House State Dinner for the President of Kenya
(Mwai Kibaki), the 12th Annual Kennedy Center Gala with Nancy Wilson and Liza
Minelli. The World Stars of the Opera International Ballet Gala in Budapest,
Hungary, the Stars of the 21st Century in Paris and Toronto, and the Black
Dance Celebration in Genoa, Italy
