CAROLINE ARNOLD ALEXANDER - Director/Ballet Instructor

Caroline Arnold Alexander began her training at the age of five. She moved to Texas when she was 10 years old and continued her ballet studies at Ballet Academy of Texas in Coppell under the direction of Lisa Slagle. During her last years of high school, Caroline studied at Houston Ballet's Ben Stevenson Academy. Caroline attended Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music on scholarship, studying under many notable instructors including distinguished ballerina Violette Verdy. She left Indiana University after her junior year of college to join Kansas City Ballet and completed her degree while dancing professionally, receiving a Bachelor of Science in Ballet Performance in 2014.

Caroline danced professionally with Kansas City Ballet , Ballet West, and the Romanian National Ballet in Bucharest, Romania. 

Caroline opened Aledo Academy of Ballet in January 2019 and began her nonprofit student ensemble, Aledo Ballet Studio Company, in the Fall of 2021. In 2023 Caroline introduced the Pre-Professional Classical Coaching Division of AAB, and currently coaches seven advanced dancers who have represented Aledo Academy of Ballet at various competitions across the United States. Since the Pre-Pro Classical Coaching Division's inception her students have placed at multiple prominent ballet competitions including Youth America Grand Prix, Youth International Ballet Competition, and Universal Ballet Competition.

Caroline is certified in Maria Walton-Mahon's Progressing Ballet Technique and has studied under Lisa Howell, owner of The Ballet Blog, for her Level 1 Teacher Training, and her Level 2 Pointe Intensive, Flexibility Intensive, and the Training Turnout in Tiny Dancers Intensive. Caroline has attended Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet's Teacher Workshop for five summers studying and learning Marcia Dale Weary's syllabus and teaching method. She is currently working to become a certified teacher through Runqiao Du's Art of Ballet Instruction. Caroline is a member of the International Association of Dance Medicine and Science and a Trainee of the Sugarfoot Thearpy Program.