Victor Alexander is a dancer, choreographer, and instructor native to Pinar del Rio, Cuba. He currently serves as the Director of the Ruth Page School of Dance and the Ruth Page Civic Ballet Training Company in Chicago, IL, where he continues a greater than 50-year tradition of exceptional training and mentoring of the next generation of young artists. Through the development of international partnerships and networks, Alexander has expanded the School’s reach with important collaborations and exchanges with other leading dance institutions around the world.  

Alexander’s keen insight, experience and a dedication to the craft come from an international dancing, choreographic, and teaching career. He trained at the prestigious Escuela Nacional de Arte (ENA) in Havana, graduating in 1992 with a degree in Modern and Cuban folkloric dance. He went on to be a principal dancer for the prominent Danza Contemporánea de Cuba from 1992 to 2002, where both his technical talent and expressive dance style gained national prominence. Alexander has performed throughout Europe, Asia, the Caribbean, and the United States. Since relocating from Cuba to Chicago in 2002, Alexander has performed with Lyric Opera of Chicago, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Houston Grand Opera, Hedwig Dances, CDI/Concert Dance Inc, and Luna Negra Dance Theater.   

His many accolades include Dance Magazine’s prestigious “25 to Watch in 2013” list, and in December of 2013, his work Line of Sighs was highlighted in the Chicago Tribune’s “Top 10 Best Dance Performances of 2013.” In 2012, he was one of four choreographers selected for the Chicago Dancemakers Forum Lab Artists Program. In 2013, he received a fellowship from the Illinois Arts Council for Line of Sighs, and he was selected as one of the 2013 Novel Affair Artists selected by The Ragdale Curatorial Board. In 2014, Alexander was one of the choreographers chosen to participate in Chicago’s Afro-Latino Festival 2014 with his work Among us, and he was additionally selected to participate in Hubbard Street Dance Chicago’s choreographic initiative, The International Commissioning Project. In Spring 2022, he was presented with the Hedwig Dance Leadership Award.