Alaina Wilson

Alaina Wilson is a New York City-based dance artist, educator, and administrator. Wilson currently serves as Chief of Staff and Senior Director of Strategic Advancement & Communications with Gibney, a social action oriented non-profit dance organization and dance training and rehearsal space hub in New York City, where she proudly supports organizational strategy, administrative and programmatic processes, development, and marketing initiatives. She has previously held administrative positions with Jonah Bokaer Arts Foundation and BodyStories: Teresa Fellion Dance. At present, Wilson is also a Doctoral Candidate in Dance Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. Her research investigates dance technique as embodied practice, exploring how dancers generate, enact, and reproduce knowledge through sustained engagement with specific dance styles. With a performance background in ballet and contemporary forms, Wilson’s teaching has spanned private studio, pre-professional, and academic contexts including the Ailey School Junior Division; Bronxville Ballet; Bronxville Adult School; Eliza Corwin Frost Child Center; Morningside DanceWorkX at Teachers College, Columbia University; Northern Westchester School of Dance; School of the Holy Child; and Randolph College. Her pedagogical approach aims to recontextualize technique through processes of investigation and discovery while acknowledging the specific needs and interests of the dancers she works with. Wilson maintains an active choreographic practice, having produced more than 25 original works of dance over the past decade, developing works for concert stages, site-specific environments, and digital contexts that engage questions emerging from anthropology, philosophy, visual art, and theater. Wilson received her BA from Vassar College in Greek and Roman Studies, graduating Phi Beta Kappa, and received her MFA in dance from Sarah Lawrence College.