Ronald Alexander:
CLASS OF 1969
Western High SchoolClass of 1969
Washington, DC
Ronald's Story
Ronald is from Washington, District of Columbia. He is single. His schools include Western High School. He later attended Workshop for Careers in the Arts at George Washington University, Cambridge School of Ballet, The National Ballet School of Canada, Elma Lewis School of the Arts, David Shields School of Ballet, Boston University (Liberal Arts), SUNY Empire State College. He works(ed) at RKA Consultants, Warner Theatre, Nutmeg Conservatory for the Arts.
Ronald's interests include Dance Magazine's "25 to Watch", Nature, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, New York Rangers, Serena Williams fan club, Venus Williams, Cullen Jones. Music he likes includes George Gershwin, John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman, Tchaikovsky. Books he likes include Invisible Man, Follies of God, The Skin You Live In. Movies he likes include MARCELO GOMES: Anatomy of a Male Ballet Dancer, In Balanchine's Classroom project, Free Angela. TV shows he likes include Comics Unleashed, Sanford and Son, The Jeffersons.
One of Ronald's favorite quotes is:"too many to quote!".
More about Ronald:"Ronald Alexander is a professional with experience as a ballet dancer, dance educator, choreographer, and an administrator in the not-for-profit, private and academic sectors. Born in Washington, DC, he started his formal training with Mike Malone and Peggy Cooper at the Workshop for Careers in the Arts at George Washington University and continued his training with David Shields at the David Shields School of Ballet in Boston, MA and Billy Wilson at the Elma Lewis School of the Arts in Roxbury, MA while attending Boston University on a full academic scholarship. He subsequently received a full scholarship to the National Ballet School in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
He has performed with the following ballet companies: the National Ballet of Canada, the Iranian National Ballet, the Frankfurt and Hamburg Ballet Companies in Germany, and the Metropolitan Opera Ballet in New York City. He has choreographed numerous dances for schools, colleges and dance companies including the Hamburg Ballet, Clark Center for the Performing Arts, the Ailey School, the Harlem School of the Arts, Boys and Girls Harbor Conservatory, the Alpha-Omega Theatrical Dance Company, and the Nanette Bearden Dance Company to name a few. He partic...Expand for more
ipated in the Carlisle Choreographers Project in Pittsburgh, PA and the Dance Theatre of Harlem's Emerging Choreographers Series under Bessie Schonberg. He has taught dance and has been a guest teaching artist in the following organizations in NYC: the Ailey School, the Dance Theatre of Harlem School, Lincoln Center for the Arts in Education, Clark Center for the Performing Arts, Boys and Girls Harbor Conservatory, Ruth Williams School of Dance, Henry Street Settlement, Lehman College, Marymount Manhattan College, LaGuardia Community College, and Adelphi University, among others.
From 1994-2002, Ronald Alexander was a NYC certified dance instructor with the NYC Department of Education. He has held administrative and artistic positions in the following academic and not-for-profit venues: Chairman of the Dance Department of the Harlem School of the Arts, New York, NY (1987-92) under Betty Allen, Principal of the High School for Contemporary Arts, Bronx, NY (2003-05) with the NYC Board of Education, and the School Administrator at the Dance Theatre of Harlem in New York, NY (2005-07) under Arthur Mitchell. He has studied the American Ballet Theatre School Training Curriculum (Primary to Level Three) under Franco
DeVita and Raymond Lukens; the Vaganova Ballet Training Method (Primary to Level Three) under John White; and the New York City Ballet Workout as taught by New York City Ballet.
Mr. Alexander has a Master of Fine Arts degree in Dance from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, and a certificate in School Supervision and Administration from the City College of New York, NY. From May, 2008 to December, 2011 he was the Principal of the Nutmeg Conservatory for the Arts where he supervised the Classical Academic Program and was Dean of Admissions. He choreographed to favorable reviews: "A Chorus Line," in 2009 and "Titanic," in 2011 at the Warner Theatre, one of New England's premiere community theatres. In February 2011, Mr. Alexander was the subject of an article in Dance Teacher Magazine, "Five Teachers, Five Venues." At present, he has returned to New York City and looks forward to teaching, choreographing, consulting and pursuing new administrative and artistic challenges and activities with city-wide and national educational and arts institutions.".
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