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LANE ALEXANDER co-founded and directs the Chicago Human Rhythm Project,
the oldest and largest American institution dedicated to the presentation of
concert tap art. His performing career spans over 30 years and includes an Emmy
nomination for the WTTW/ITVS documentary “JUBA!”, television, film
and concerts at Carnegie Hall, the Royal Festival Hall in London with the London
Philharmonic Orchestra and Chicago’s Symphony Center with the Chicago
Sinfonietta. Lane toured nationally and internationally with Austin on Tap and
the National Tap Dance Company of Canada and has appeared as a soloist at major
tap festivals in Amsterdam, Atlanta, Helsinki, New York, Paris, Prague, Seattle,
and Vancouver. In a former life, Lane danced in the Candlelight Dinner Theater’s
long running production of 42nd Street and Marriot Lincolnshire’s Funny
Girl among others.
Lane received the Ruth Page Award in 2000 for Outstanding Contribution to
the Field, was recognized by the Chicago Tribune in 1999 as a Chicagoan
of the Year, was awarded Illinois Arts Council Choreography Fellowships in 1998
and 2004, and was most recently honored to receive a 2004 Chicago Dancemakers
Forum project grant.
Alexander has served on the adjunct faculty of Northwestern University and
has taught for the Lou Conte Dance Studio, the Gus Giordano Jazz Dance Center,
the Joel Hall Dance Studio, Columbia College, Stephen’s College and the
University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He choreographs dances for companies and soloists
throughout the United States and Europe, including Especially Tap Chicago, Tap
Unlimited (Zurich), Macadam (Paris), Footlights (Helsinki), Keane Sense of Rhythm
(Minneapolis), Gus Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago, the North Carolina Youth Tap
Ensemble, RPM (San Antonio) and Tappers with Attitude (Washington, D.C.). He
also designs tap dance shoes for Leo’s Dancewear.
Alexander served on the Board of Directors of the Chicago Dance Coalition,
as a grant panelist for the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, as an International
Tap Association Illinois State representative and is currently working on the
International Tap Association’s Tap Interim/Historical Project as a moderator.
He has appeared with such greats as Donald O’Connor, Gregory Hines, the
Nicholas Brothers, Buster Brown, Prince Spencer, Peg Leg Bates, Jimmy Slyde,
Savion Glover and Luke Cresswell. He studied with Laine Johns, Susan Beil Connally,
Steve Condos, LaVaughn Robinson, Fred Strickler, William Orlowski, Dianne Walker,
Sam Weber and Bobby Wells.
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