Kurt Douglas joined the Boston Conservatory faculty in 2015 and is currently Professor of Dance, specializing in technique, repertory, and pedagogy for modern dance. Douglas also serves as artistic director for Boston Conservatory at Berklee’s Summer Dance Intensive (SDI). A graduate of New York’s LaGuardia High School of Music and Art and Performing Arts, and originally from Guyana, Douglas earned his BFA in dance from Boston Conservatory and MFA in dance from Hollins University. After graduating from the Conservatory in 2001, he joined the Limón Dance Company, where he performed in many of Limón’s most influential works. He received a 2002 Princess Grace Award and was honored by an invitation to perform for the royal family of Monaco. In 2007, Douglas became the first African American to portray Iago in The Moor’s Pavane, José Limón’s most famous work. Douglas was named one of Dance Magazine’s “Top 25 to Watch” in the January 2006 issue, and he received a Berklee distinguished faculty award in 2022.
 

Douglas has danced for the Radio City Christmas Spectacular, Ballet Hispánico, Lar Lubovitch Dance Company, and Aszure Barton & Artists, and has toured with the Tony Award–winning musical A Chorus Line throughout the United States, Japan, Singapore, and Australia. Douglas joined the board of directors of the Limon Dance Company in 2020 and continues to serve as an active voting member. He serves as a visiting teaching artist across all Limon education programs and continues to re-stage work as a repétitéur for the Limón Dance Foundation in New York City.