Alexandra Elizabeth Hutchinson is an American ballet dancer who has studied formal classical ballet for more than 20 years at the Academy of the Dance in Delaware, The Washington School of Ballet, and Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music, with summer studies at Alvin Ailey Dance Theater, Alonzo King Lines Ballet, Carolina Ballet, Ballet Chicago, L’Academie Americaine de Danse de Paris, and Nashville Ballet.

At the age of three, she began a daily regimen of classical Russian ballet training under the tutelage of Scottish born, three time world Highlands champion Victor Wesley at the Academy of the Dance in Wilmington, Delaware. Following her move to Washington, DC, she studied for eight years at The Washington School of Ballet (TWSB), where she was awarded the Virginia Johnson Scholarship for three years. Also, she was asked, by name, to perform in three professional productions of the Washington Ballet Company at the Kennedy Center and Shakespeare Theatre – Le Corsaire, The Great Gatsby, and Stars and Stripes.

At Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music, she would become the first African-American woman since the conservatory was founded in 1921 to perform in the role of the Sugar Plum Fairy in Michael Vernon’s Nutcracker.

In 2017, she joined the Nashville Ballet’s second company for one season. Alexandra has danced featured roles in Robert Garland’s New Bach, Michael Vernon’s The Nutcraker as the Sugar Plum Fairy and Arabian Queen, George Balanchine’s Western Symphony, and Paul Vasterling’s Sleeping Beauty. Her mentors include Septime Webre, Virginia Johnson, Violette Verdy, Arthur Mitchell, Victoria Simon, and Nilas Martins. She is the recipient of the Washington Ballet Virginia Johnson Scholarship and a Kennedy Center Honors Scholarship. She has appeared as a guest and performer on the CBS affiliate Great Day Washington.

Alexandra not only is one of the top emerging ballerinas in this region but acts also as a humanitarian and through many efforts demonstrates strong civic responsibility. While with the Washington Ballet, she performed for young audiences across the city, exposing uninitiated audiences to the world of ballet for the first time. While with the Nashville Ballet, through its community outreach efforts, she worked with youth and communities educating and initiating many underserved groups to ballet and performing in more than 15 events in children’s hospitals, schools, and community centers across the state. Most recently, in response to young girls of color seeing ballerinas for the first time, she has initiated a blog focused on self-esteem, nutrition, poise, etiquette, and exercise to inspire young black girls who aspire to dance.

She is currently featured in Robert Garland’s New Bach ballet and enjoys the distinction of being one of the last dancers to work with the legendary Arthur Mitchell before his death. Later this year, she will appear in Tones, one of his earliest works with the original company.

Alexandra resides in Harlem, New York where she enjoys photography and projects to encourage young black girls to dance. She is a member of the International Association of Blacks in Dance.