Cornelius Carter

Cornelius Carter is the former Director of Dance at The University of Alabama, and Artistic Director of the Alabama Repertory Dance Theatre. Mr. Carter has been awarded the National Outstanding Doctoral and Research Universities Professor of the Year award by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in Washington, D.C.

He received the award for the 2001-2002 Outstanding Commitment to Teaching Award by the Alabama Alumni Association. Mr. Carter attended the Conservatory of Theatre Arts at Webster University in St. Louis, MO and received his MFA in Dance from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He has danced with Cleo Robinson Parker Dance Ensemble and studied at The Ailey School in New York. Mr. Carter was the Artistic Director of the first contemporary dance company and school in Reykjavík, Iceland. He has been a faculty member at the American Ballet Theatre, American Dance Festival (Moscow & Ekaterinburg, Russia & Seoul, Korea), Bates Dance Festival and was the Dean of Students at the Harvard Summer Dance Festival.

His choreography has been presented at the American Choreographers Showcase in France, Holland, Austria, Vienna and Lithuania. He continues to set new works with student companies, professional companies and other university dance programs in the United States and abroad. He also served as Guest Rehearsal Director for Dance Brazil in Bahia, Brazil. For the past 17 years Mr. Carter has taught and choreographed for the Alvin Ailey Summer Intensive Program and in 2013 he debuted a work with Broadway Dance Center in New York in 2013. He has set works around the world and was recently appointed as a faculty member at the Broadway Dance Center, where is serves at faculty in residence. His most acclaimed recent choreography include works at the Victoria School of the Arts in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; the Gus Giordano Dance School in Chicago; the Joffrey Ballet School in New York City; and the National High School Dance Festival. In 2018, he spent the summer as a Guest Choreographer and Master Teacher for the University of Roehampton (London, England) and at the Listdansskoli Icelandic Ballet School, Reykjavik, Iceland. In 2019 Professor Carter will be showcasing his new work with Dance-Forms, 76th International Choreographers Showcase at the Fringe Festival, in Edinburgh, Scotland.