Alexandra Damiani

Damiani is a French choreographer, artistic director and movement specialist based in New York City. She currently serves as the Artistic Director of the internationally acclaimed contemporary company Ballets Jazz Montréal.

Her choreographic works have been performed in New York, NY, Richmond, VA and Pittsburgh, PA to critical acclaim. Her expertise has been used in numerous commercials and film projects, includingBloch, Colgate, Warby Parker, Black Swanand Adjustment Bureau. Damiani worked with Tanisha Scott on the 2019 BET awards performance of Cardi B.

Damiani was the artistic director of Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, where she worked intimately with Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Alexander Ekman, Ohad Naharin, Crystal Pite and Hofesh Schechter, among others. Damiani teaches master classes all over the world and co-directed the 2019 Contemporary Ballet summer program at Jacob’s Pillow. She is also the director of NYCDA Winter Dance Intensive at the Juilliard studios since 2015. She is on faculty at Pace University.

Damiani most recently restaged an excerpt of Violet Kid by Hofesh Schechter for the Princeton Dance Festival.

Damiani is a certified Medical Qigong Therapist from the Dantao school and the Institute Traditional Medicine (Toronto, CA). She is a passionate teacher of Qigong and Taiji under the guidance of Sat Chuen Hon.