Skip to main content

Alvon Reed

Cornell College

Alvon Reed is a Cedar Rapids based dancer, teacher and choreographer.  He currently serves as the Dance Artist-in-Residence at Cornell College where he directed and choreographed the first dance concert in more than thirty years entitled TRIGGERED. Alvon was a Scholarship Program student at The Ailey School and the Milwaukee Ballet School.   Alvon’s performance credits include, Nike, PUMA, Levi’s Jeans, Microsoft, Norwegian Cruise Lines, Inland Pacific Ballet, Nevada Ballet Theatre, Opus Dance Theatre, and Jennifer Muller/The Works. Alvon also performed in Arena Stages first multi-ethnic production of Oklahoma under the direction of Molly Smith.  He has worked with renowned post-modern choreographer Bill T. Jones on the Broadway workshop entitled “Superfly! The Musical."  He has also performed at the world renowned Apollo Theatre with tap dancing legend, Maurice Hines.  His choreographic credits include, Shrek The Musical, The Little Mermaid, Sister Act The Musical, Peter Pan at Theatre Cedar Rapids.  Additional choreographic credits include American Idiot for the Department of Theatre at the University of Iowa, Hattie Mae’s Juke Joint (an original musical about juke joint life in post war America), and EVITA with Revival Theatre Company.  Alvon is a proud member of the Actor’s Equity Association.