Alexander Thompson

Alexander Thompson is an artist and cultural organizer. He served as the Program Director at the Foundation for Contemporary Arts for six and a half years where he stewarded the nomination, application, and selection processes for the organization’s grant programs. Prior to his work at FCA, he served as the Associate Artist Program Manager and Interim Director of Education and Engagement at New York Live Arts while maintaining an active dance practice. He has provided administrative support to many individual artists; co-facilitated workshops at the 2015 SDHS/CORD Conference in Athens and at Ezzat Ezzat Contemporary Dance Studio in Cairo with support from the American Embassy in Cairo; served as a panelist for the Brooklyn Arts Council, Bronx Council on the Arts, Gibney, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; has been a guest speaker at Augusta University, Bard College, Colby College, the Juilliard School, the New School, the University of Texas at Austin, and Virginia Commonwealth University; and was a guest teaching artist at NYU Tisch School the Arts, where he taught a semester-long professional practice workshop to dance students from 2014-2019. Additionally, he served on the Dance/NYC Junior Committee for four years, serving as the Vice-Chair and Chair, and four years on Doug Varone and Dancers’ Junior Board. He holds a BA in Music Composition and Dance from Bard College.