Biography leah howard dance choreographer

Leah Howard talks to Sally Clark about a dance career spanning over 20 years and still going strong.

Sustaining enough work in the performing arts to call it a career is a major achievement.

So to have managed this for long enough to find yourself celebrating your 40th birthday, whilst performing in Disney’s smash hit, Aladdin, certainly justifies a celebration.

Leah Howard is that quintessential commercial dancer whose boundless talent and performance energy has allowed her to work as a triple-threat performer, freelance dancer, resident director and choreographer between musicals, corporate events, television projects and music acts (and very often juggling this work across genres, concurrently) over a professional career spanning more than 20 years.

Her theatre performance credits include Aretha Thomas in Legends!, starring Hayley Mills and Juliet Mills, Mrs Corry in Disney’s Mary Poppins, and roles in Avenue Q, Hair, Fame th