Ronald Alexander
Ronald K. Alexander is an independent arts consultant, dance educator, and choreographer. He has performed with the following ballet companies: the National Ballet of Canada, the Iranian National Ballet, the Frankfurt and Hamburg Ballet Companies, and the Metropolitan Opera Ballet in New York City. He has choreographed for numerous 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 among others.
He has been on faculty at the following schools, Clark Center for the Performing Arts, 92 Street Y, the Ailey School, Boys and Girls Club, The Joffrey School, NY, The Dance Theater of Harlem School, the French Academy of Ballet, among others.
From 1994-2002, Ronald K. was a certified dance instructor with the New York City Department of Education. He has held administrative and artistic positions in the following public, private 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; Academic Principal of the High School for Contemporary Arts, Bronx, NY (2003-05); and School Director of Dance at the Dance Theatre of Harlem (2005-07) under Arthur Mitchell. He has studied the Vaganova Ballet technique under John White, and the New York City Ballet Workout under New York City Ballet.
Mr. Alexander has an MFA 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. He has served as the Academic Principal of the Nutmeg Conservatory for the Arts (2008-2011) as well as a faculty member. Mr. Alexander was the subject of Five Teachers, Five Venues, a 2011 article in Dance Teacher Magazine. He is the former Director of Education at the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Youth Arts Academy (2015-2019) in Brooklyn, NY. He currently teaches ballet at the Ailey School and Peridance Center in New York, NY and Concepts Dance Academy in South Orange, New Jersey. Also, he is a recent recipient of the 2022 Dance Teacher Award by Dance Teacher Magazine.