Benjamin Alexander

© Andreas Jakwerth

Benjamin Alexander was born in Canada. He was trained from 2013 to 2020 at Canada’s National Ballet School and attended a summer exchange of the Australian Ballet School. He gained stage experience in »The Nutcracker« with The National Ballet of Canada as well as in »La Bayadère« at the 7th Biennal Dance Education in Hamburg, at the Ballet Asteras Gala in Tokyo and as Solor in »La Bayadère« with Canada’s National Ballet School, where he also danced in Jera Wolfe's »Arise« and James Kudelka's »School«. While studying at Canada's National Ballet School, he received in 2020 the Christopher Ondaatje Ballet Prize for outstanding achievement and the Peter Dwyer Award. Since the 2022/23 season he has been a member of the corps de ballet of the Vienna State Ballet. His previous performances include parts in Martin Schläpfer's »The Sleeping Beauty« and Frederick Ashton's »La Fille mal gardée«.

Performances with Benjamin Alexander

Saison 2025-26
Thu
05 Feb
19:00—21:15
George Balanchine
Ballett Main Stage
Jewels

Cast on Thursday 5. February 2026

Klavier »Rubies«

Emeralds 1. Pas de deux

Emeralds 2. Pas de deux

Emeralds Pas de trois

Rubies Pas de deux

Yo Nakajima

Rubies Solodame

Diamonds Pas de deux

Musikalische Leitung

Choreografie

Musik

Gabriel Fauré

Igor Strawinski

Piotr I. Tschaikowski

Kostüme

Einstudierung

Ö1 U27
Abo 18

Ticket information

Einen Wochentag und Lieblingsplätze wählen und fünf Vorstellungen in einer Saison genießen.

In diesem Abo sind folgende Vorstellungen enthalten:

04. September 2025Otello
16. Oktober 2025Così fan tutte
05. Februar 2026Jewels (Ballett)
28. Mai 2026Eugen Onegin
25. Juni 2026Il trittico

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