Alexander Skinner was born in Ottawa, Ontario and trained at The School of Dance in Ottawa, Ontario and Canada’s National Ballet School. Alexander joined The National Ballet of Canada as an RBC Apprentice in 2017 and became a member of the Corps de Ballet in 2018.
Alexander’s repertoire includes Guy Glover in Frame by Frame, Benvolio in Romeo and Juliet, Companion and Seryozha in Anna Karenina, Descendant Blackbeard in MADDADDAM, Neapolitan Dance in Swan Lake, Fox in The Nutcracker, Justin in Emma Bovary, Peasant Pas de Six in Giselle and Herakles in Desperate Drama of Red. He has also danced roles in Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty, Don Quixote, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Cinderella, Onegin, The Winter’s Tale, Nijinsky, The Merry Widow, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Dream, Diamonds, Rubies, Symphony in C, The Second Detail, Chroma, Emergence, Angels’ Atlas, Elite Syncopations, Suite en Blanc, Concerto, Etudes, Chaconne, Rhapsody, The Leaves are Fading, Marguerite and Armand, Trio Sonata, The Collective Agreement, islands, Being and Nothingness, UtopiVerse, Alleged Dances, Bolero, The Dreamers Ever Leave You, Orpheus Alive, Night, On Solid Ground, 4 for 5, as seen from before and Reverence.
Alexander was awarded the RBC Emerging Artist Award in 2018, the David Tory Award in 2020 and the Patron Award of Merit in 2021.
