Victor Alexander
Guest Teacher

Victor Alexander is a native of Pinar del Rio, Cuba. He trained at the National Dance School in Havana and was a principle dancer with the National Contemporary Dance Company of Cuba for ten years. He has studied with distinguished teachers such as Donald McKayle, Chuck Davis and Jeffrey Bullock from the United States. Mr. Alexander has toured and danced throughout Europe, the United States and the Caribbean, and has participated in dance festivals such as the American Dance Festival at Duke University, the Holland Dance Festival in Amsterdam and the International Dance Festival in Germany. He was the first prize winner of the 4th National Union of Writers and Artists Contest in Cuba in 1992.

Mr. Alexander has been dancing with LunaNegra Dance Theate, Concert Dance Inc (CDI), The Lyric Opera of Chicago and as a guest artist with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago in 2008. He has a also danced with the Houston Grand Opera and was nominated for an Emmy Award as a Dancer (2008) with the Ruth Page Foundation's production of Billy Sunday. In 2009 Mr. Alexander touredin  China with CDI and taught at the Nanjing Normal University. He has danced with Hedwig Dances since relocating to Chicago in 2002