About Alex

This is me

I performed starring roles from an early age

Alex Davison began dance training at age seven in his father’s Boyz Dance classes, and the love he discovered for dance, juggling, mime, theater, and object manipulation has influenced his life ever since. Boyz Dance soon led to ballet with his mother, and the opportunity to spend summers studying on full scholarship at Pacific Northwest Ballet in Seattle and American Ballet Theater in New York City. After winning the regional Grand Prix award in the Youth America Grand Prix competition, Alex would later return to New York and dance as one of the top twenty male finalists from around the world.

 

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Me with the Lebanon Ballet School

After graduating from Boulder High School, Alex attended the Miami City Ballet Summer Course at the personal invitation of the company’s artistic director, renowned New York City Ballet dancer Edward Villella. While at the summer course, he was offered a full scholarship to study at the school’s year round program, which culminated in performances of Balanchine’s Serenade and Four Temperaments. Alex was then offered a spot in the Miami City Ballet as a company apprentice, and he spent the next year learning and dancing pieces by George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, and John Cranko, taking each performance to four different cities around Florida, and joining the company for a three-week tour to Paris in which he danced at the Théâtre du Châtelet. After returning to the States, Alex headed home to Boulder to take a break and heal from what had become a chronic back injury.

Alex loves teaching ballet, and has choreographed several pieces for the Boulder Ballet including a performance of Copland’s Appalachian Spring with the Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra, which he choreographed with Nancy Smith for Boulder Ballet and the Frequent Flyers aerial dance company.

Alex is getting uncomfortable writing about himself in the third person, so he will stop here.
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