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Arrington James Lassiter

@_iamentertaina

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Professional Dancer, Choreographer,Performer, Creative & EntertAinA! NEPAG, Raw Element , Culture Shock DC (Artistic Director) 🕺🏾💯♊️

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Blessed and Honored To Choreograph For @wizardsdancers 2X. Thank you @dancewhitdee & @thequeencole_ Whew Home Opener Tho. 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙌🏾👌🏾💯😍🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

I present to You "Donk"
Choreography By: @_iamentertaina
Dancers @wizardsdancers

#ajayentertainalassiterchoreography #dmvdance #dcdance #jazzfunk #hiphop #wizardsdancers #prodance by @_iamentertaina

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DMV Dance Tribute ( Youth Edition)
Curated / Choreography By : @_iamentertaina
Shot By : @yoshellz_ @royalbreedcm
Songs : @glorillapimp -Hollon / @criticalconditionband -Whip Whop/ Butterfly.

It's Finally Here.
Thanks for all of your Patience. This Project was one that was very important to me. Being a DMV Dance Leader I wanted to showcase the youth I work with in The city. So I came up with the idea of making what was supposed to be a performance into a visual. The kids deserved to be shown. It's too much talent out here for them not to shown.

Shoutout To:

🎥 @yoshellz_ - Thank you for everything you've done to bring this too life!

And Too My Dance Families

@neperformingartsgroup - / @itsthacarebear
@futureshockdc2.0
@raw.element.dance.company / @_iampoca_

For being apart of my Video! And Shoutout to the Parents!

#ajayentertainalassiterchoreography #dmvdancers #dmvdancecommunity #beatyafeet #neperformingartsgroup #rawelementdancecompany #futureshockdc #glorilla #hollon #ccbgogo #hiphopdance by @_iamentertaina

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Meet the newest addition to the Neema faculty, A’Jay “EntertAinA” Lassiter! 🩷🖤

A Washington, D.C. native, A’Jay brings a wealth of experience as a choreographer, performer, educator, and creative director. His journey includes training with industry legends like Debbie Allen, Arthur Mitchell, and Anthony Burrell, with credits spanning The Kennedy Center, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Washington Wizards, Alex Newell, CeCe Peniston, Raheem DeVaughn, and more.

We’re excited for our dancers to learn, grow, and create with him this season.

Welcome to Neema, A’Jay! ✨
Poised. Focused. Trained.

#NeemaDanceAndGymnastics #NeemaFaculty #PoisedFocusedTrained #DMVDance #BlackDanceEducators taken in Neema Dance Collective by @_iamentertaina

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Round Two but With Mystics Mayhem.

"Let Em Know " Mixed By @yonder.creative 🔥🔥🙌🏾
Choreography: @_iamentertaina
Dancers: Mystic Mayhem
#ajayentertainalassiterchoreography #hiphopdanxe #mysticmayhem #wnba #dmvdancecommunity

Thanks @dancewhitdee & @thequeencole_ for the opportunity again. 🔥🔥🔥 by @_iamentertaina

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🚨 WE HAVE 48 HOURS TO SAVE NEPAG 🚨

This is one of the hardest messages we have ever had to share.

After 47 years of changing lives, the Northeast Performing Arts Group is fighting to keep the doors of the NE Outreach Youth Center open—the place we have called home for 28 years.

We urgently need to raise $30,000 within the next 48 hours.

This isn’t just about saving a building. It’s about protecting a place where generations of children have been able to dance, learn, grow, dream, feel safe, and BELONG. ❤️

We need our village now more than ever.

🙏 300 people giving $100 = $30,000
🙏 600 people giving $50 = $30,000
🙏 1,500 people giving $20 = $30,000

Please don’t think your gift is too small. $10, $20, $50—EVERY gift moves us closer.

❤️ GoFundMe:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/urgent-help-us-keep-our-doors-open

📧 Zelle: neperformingartsgroup1@outlook.com
💙 PayPal: neperformingartsgroup2@outlook.com

If you cannot donate, PLEASE SHARE THIS POST. Tag your friends. Send it to your family. Reach out to an NEPAG alumnus. Ask five people to give.

We have 48 hours. We need a miracle—and that miracle may simply be our community coming together.

Please help us keep these doors open for the children who still need a place to call home. ❤️🙏🏾

#SaveNEPAG #48Hours #SupportOurYouth #SupportTheArts #DCArts taken in Northeast Performing Arts Group by @_iamentertaina

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🚨 IMPORTANT DONATION UPDATE 🚨

Our GoFundMe campaign has been paused, but you can still help support the Northeast Performing Arts Group and our efforts to keep our doors open.

❤️ WAYS TO GIVE:

💚 Venmo: @neperformingartsgroup
💙 Zelle: neperformingartsgroup1@outlook.com
💛 PayPal: neperformingartsgroup2@outlook.com

Every donation—large or small—makes a difference for the children and families we serve.

Please donate today and share this message with your friends, family, and community. Together, we can keep NEPAG’s doors open and continue changing lives through the performing arts. 🙏🏾❤️

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Dear NEPAG Family and Supporters,

For 47 years, the Northeast Performing Arts Group has been a place where young people can learn, grow, create, and dream. For the past 28 years, the NE Outreach Youth Center has been our home—a safe space where generations of children have discovered their talents, built confidence, and found a place where they belong.

Today, we urgently need your help to keep that home.

We are facing a critical deadline, and August 24 is quickly approaching. We are asking our friends, families, alumni, community partners, and supporters to come together and help us keep the doors of the NE Outreach Youth Center open.

Every gift makes a difference:

• $25 helps provide supplies for our youth.

• $50 helps support arts programming.

• $100 helps keep our programs accessible to families.

• $250 helps us continue providing a safe space for young people.

• $500+ makes a major impact toward keeping our doors open.

If NEPAG has ever touched your life, your child’s life, or someone you love, please stand with us now. If you cannot donate, please share our appeal with your friends, family, coworkers, and community.

❤️ WAYS TO GIVE

GoFundMe:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/urgent-help-us-keep-our-doors-open

Zelle: neperformingartsgroup1@outlook.com

PayPal: neperformingartsgroup2@outlook.com

Mail a Check:
Northeast Performing Arts Group
3431 Benning Road, N.E.
Washington, DC 20019

For nearly five decades, you have helped us change lives. Now, we need your help to save the place where those lives are changed.

Please donate today. Please share. Please help us keep our doors open. by @_iamentertaina

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Dear Family,

Every morning, we unlock the doors of the Northeast Performing Arts Group and watch children run inside with smiles on their faces. They don’t see the financial challenges we face. They simply know that NEPAG is a place where they are loved, encouraged, and where they belong.

For 47 years, NEPAG has transformed lives through the performing arts. For the past 28 years, the NE Outreach Youth Center has been the heart of our mission—a safe haven where children discover confidence, creativity, friendship, and the courage to dream.

Today, that home is at risk.

If we lose the NE Outreach Youth Center, we won’t just lose a building—we’ll lose a place that has inspired and nurtured generations of young people.

We refuse to let that happen.

Your gift—no matter the size—will help keep our doors open so children continue to have a safe place to learn, grow, create, and shine.

Ways to Give

🎭 Purchase Tickets to Our End-of-Summer Dansical, A Tribute to the Jackson’s
https://nepagtributetothejacksons2026.eventbrite.com

💙 Make an Online Gift (GoFundMe)
https://www.gofundme.com/f/urgent-help-us-keep-our-doors-open

Zelle: neperformingartsgroup1@outlook.com

PayPal: neperformingartsgroup2@outlook.com

Mail a Check:
Northeast Performing Arts Group
3431 Benning Road, N.E.
Washington, DC 20019

Every donation helps preserve a place where children can continue to dream, grow, and discover their potential.

Thank you for believing in our mission and investing in the future of our children.

With gratitude,

Carrington Lassiter
Executive Director

Arrington Lassiter
Artistic Director by @_iamentertaina

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🎤✨ The award-winning Northeast Performing Arts Group presents A Tribute to the Jackson’s!

📅 Wednesday, August 12, 2026
📍 St. Luke’s Center
4923 E. Capitol St. SE, Washington, DC 20019

🕦 11:30 AM – Matinee (Seniors & Camps)
🎟️ $10 Tickets: https://nepagtributetothejacksonsmatinee1.eventbrite.com/

🌟 7:30 PM – General Admission
🎟️ $20 Tickets: https://nepagtributetothejacksons2026.eventbrite.com

Celebrate the legendary Jackson family through live music, dance, and theater performed by the talented youth of NEPAG. Every ticket supports our year-round arts and academic enrichment programs for DC youth.

📞 (202) 704-8653
📧 neperformingartsgroup1@outlook.com

#NEPAG #TributeToTheJacksons #Jackson5 #LiveTheater #WashingtonDC YouthArts SupportTheArts by @_iamentertaina

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🖤 A Chapter Comes to a Close… 🖤

After much reflection, I’ve made the difficult decision to announce my departure from Charles Hart Middle School and the Dance Department.

Walking away from a place where I’ve poured so much of my heart, creativity, energy, and passion into young artists is not an easy decision. Dance has never simply been about teaching steps for me—it has been about building confidence, creating community, telling stories, and giving young people a space to discover who they are.

To my students: YOU are the reason this journey has meant so much.
Every rehearsal, performance, challenge, laugh, breakthrough, and “one more time from the top” will stay with me. Watching you grow—not only as dancers, but as people—has been one of the greatest privileges of my career.

To the families, colleagues, staff, administrators, and everyone who supported the Dance Department: thank you. Thank you for trusting me with your children, believing in the arts, and helping create moments that I will never forget.

And to the Hart Dance Department—thank you for allowing me to dream, create, teach, choreograph, produce, and build. From Creating Some Of The Best Moments like, Performing at the Kennedy Center, Performing with the Wizards and Even Endless Showcases and everything in between, we created something special. ❤️

This isn’t goodbye to dance.
Dance is who I am. Dance is what I do.

It’s simply the closing of one chapter and the beginning of another.

I leave Hart with gratitude, memories, lessons, and love. Most importantly, I leave knowing that the work we did mattered.

Thank you, Hart. 🖤

— AJay “EntertAinA” Lassiter
Educator • Choreographer • Artist • Creative

#DanceEducator #DanceTeacher #DanceDepartment by @_iamentertaina

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