Hi.

My name is Alexander.

I am a Creative Consultant, Community Builder, and Cultural Organizer. I currently serve as the Program Manager at the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.

I am also a dancer, maker, teller of jokes, singer of songs, arts advocate, and ice cream fanatic.

I’ve traveled to Cairo as an arts ambassador with the US State Department to facilitate a week of workshops and conversations about Basic Rights for Egyptian Dance Artists in partnership with Ezzat Ezzat Contemporary Dance Studio, and to the SDHS/CORD conference in Athens, Greece to co-facilitate a workshop on emerging artistic practices with Charles Gushue of Gushue Moving Arts.

I used to run the artist services program at New York Live Arts, worked for artists like Michelle Boulé and Abraham.In.Motion, and was an Associate Producer for ArKtype. I’ve been a panelist and speaker at events organized by Dance/NYC, Bard College, the New School, Brooklyn Arts Council, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and Queens Council on the Arts, and I’ve taught professional practice classes at NYU Tisch School of the Arts and Juilliard. I have also written occasionally about dance and arts related issues.

I served on the Junior Board of Doug Varone and Dancers and am an alumnus of the Dance/NYC Junior Committee. I organize and host the Bed Stuy Volunteer Action Committee.

Drop a line and say hello!

t: @lexanderthomp
e: alexander[dot]leslie[dot]thompson[at]gmail[dot]com