AlexanderLeslieThompson 234 W 62nd Terr., Kansas City, MO 64113 913.484.0010 [email protected]

EDUCATION AND TRAINING Bard College Bachelor of Arts in Music Composition and Composition GPA: 3.78 Studied under the department's partnership with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company with Leah Cox and Catherine Cabeen. Guest teachers affiliated with the company included Stuart Singer, Paul Matteson, Jen Nugent, LaMichael Leonard, Peter Chamberlain, and Talli Jackson Studied , Composition, Release-based technique, Cunningham, Contact Improvisation, Dunham, Limon, and with Maria Simpson, Peggy Florin, Susan Osberg, Jean Churchill, Amii LeGendre, Leslie Boyce, Lenore Latimer, and Aileen Passloff Master Classes with Pascal Rioult, and with Krista Nelson of the Cunningham Dance Company The Pembroke Hill School College Prep Diploma GPA:

Bates Dance Festival 2009 Studied with Eddie Taketa, Ryan Corriston, and Erin Owen of Doug Varone and Dancers, and with Omar Carrum of Delphos Danza Contemporanea

Doug Varone Winter Intensive 2011 Studied composition with Doug Varone, and technique and composition with Eddie Taketa, Natalie Desch, Ryan Corriston, Alex Springer, Julia Burrer, Netta Yerushalmy, and Erin Owen of Doug Varone and Dancers

Kansas City Ballet 2009 – 2010 Studied Ballet with Sean Duus

PERFORMANCE EXPERIENCE Brynfjoregg 2008 (Alexander Leslie Thompson) The Old Gym, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

Perspectives on Aloha 2008 (Janine Paat) Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

We Come, We Go 2008 (Alexander Leslie Thompson) Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

Born Into Us 2008 (Benjamin Wolk) Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

Myth of the Cosmos 2008 (Salena Braun) Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

On Apology 2008 (Amii LeGendre) Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY Dirt Empire 2009 (Jesse White) Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

say, speak, stand, stare 2009-2010 (Jacqueline Louise Brock) Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY and Martha Hill Dance Theater at , Bennington, VT

And Then 2010 (Jacqueline Louise Brock) Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

Triumph of the Mollusk 2010 (Peggy Florin) Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

Prelude and Fugue 2010 (Lenore Latimer) Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

Inner Walls 2011 (Olase Freeman) Perishable Theater, Providence, RI

Museum of Narrow Places 2011 (Amii LeGendre) Bard College MPR and Campus Center, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

To You Who Hear Me Now 2011 (Alex Springer) Hartwell Dance Theater at SUNY Brockport, Brockport, NY

CHOREOGRAPHY

Brynfjoregg 2008 The Old Gym, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

We Come, We Go 2008 Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

Still Seeing the Beautiful Light 2010 The Old Gym, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. Choreographed on Amii LeGendre

DANCE CRITICISM

Bill T. Jones Body Against Body Published February 6, 2011 Written for The Examiner

Doug Varone's Chapters From a Broken Novel Published February 26, 2011 Written for The Examiner

American Dance Legacy Institute's Mini-Festival Published March 21, 2011 Written for The Examiner

Festival Ballet Providence's Up Close on Hope Published March 24, 2011 Written for The Examiner RELATED SKILLS Studied Iyengar Yoga since 2006

AWARDS Scholarship for Achievement in the Arts, 2008