Christopher Huggins

Christopher Huggins, originally from Boston, trained under the tutelage of Andrea H. Major, the late Danny Sloan, and Martha Armstrong Gray. He attended the State University of New York at Purchase, the Juilliard School at Lincoln Center, and was a Fellowship Scholar at the Ailey School. He is a former soloist of the world-renowned Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and Aterballetto of Reggio Emilia, Italy. As a master teacher and choreographer, he works in Japan, Korea, Jamaica, South Africa, and throughout Europe and the United States. Mr. Huggins has served as an Adjunct Professor of Dance at the University for the Arts in Philadelphia and at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center/Fordham in New York City. He has taught countless master classes and workshops at several universities and dance institutions including Howard University, Spelman College, Wayne State University, University of the Arts, Ailey/Fordham, Western Michigan University, Virginia State University, Virginia School of the Arts, Georgetown University, Dreyfoos School of the Arts, Duke Ellington School of the Arts, San Diego School of Creative and Performing Arts, and the West Virginia Dance Festival. In addition to his work for Giordano Dance Chicago, Huggins has choreographed for numerous companies including Philadanco, Dallas Black Dance Theater, Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble, Lula Washington Dance Theater, Movements Dance Theater (Jamaica), Oslo Dance Ensemble, Kjara Staric Dance (Slovenia), Dance Alloy, The August Wilson Dance Ensemble, Cape Dance Company (Cape Town, South Africa), Ailey II, and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.