| Manchester 2023 ISPA - Alicia Adams |
 Alicia AdamsISPA Board Chair, Vice President, International Programming & Dance For over two decades, Alicia Adams has been presenting work from national and international arenas at the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. As Vice President of International Programming and Dance, she produces the distinguished international theatre series World Stages each year. Since 1997, she has curated and produced major international festivals including most recently Artes de Cuba, an unprecedented festival in 2018 that brought together 400 Cuban and Cuban American artists. She also curates the Center’s Contemporary Dance programming and annual Lunar New Year Celebration. She served as guest curator for the inaugural season of the New York based Joyce Theater's American Dance Platform. Active in the performing arts community, she has served on numerous boards and planning committees including the Williamstown Theater Festival in Massachusetts, the Caine Prize for African Writing (UK), Africa 95 (UK), the All Roads Project of National Geographic, Chair of the International Society of Performing Arts (ISPA), Executive Committee of the Association of Performing Arts Presenters (APAP), the National Dance Panel of the New England Foundation on the Arts, the Advisory Council for Georgetown University's Laboratory for Global Performance and Circle World Arts. In 2011 she received the APAP Fan Taylor Distinguished Service Award for exemplary service to the field of presenting. She is also an elected member of the Cosmos Club. In 2013, she was awarded the Insignia of Member First Class of the Royal Order of the Polar Star by the Swedish government. In 2014 she was awarded Insignia of Knight, First Class, of the Order of the Lion of Finland by the Finnish government. Speaker |
