Born in New Jersey, Alexandra Basmagy began her ballet training at The Academy of Dance Arts under the direction of Jennifer James Church. There, she achieved the grades of Highly Commended and Honours in the Royal Academy of Dance examinations in Grade 4 through Advanced. In 2001, she continued her training at Studio Maestro, in New York City, with Francois Perron, Deborah Wingert, and Fabrice Herrault.In 2004, Basmagy was accepted into the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School at ABT under the direction of John Meehan. She continued her studies and graduated from the JKO School under the direction of Franco de Vita.
During her training, Basmagy attended Summer Intensives at Pacific Northwest Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, and three consecutive summers at American Ballet Theatre in New York.
In 2008, Basmagy joined as an inaugural member of Corella Ballet Castilla y Leon, in Segovia, Spain. Under the direction of Angel Corella, Basmagy performed Tall Pas d’Action and a Shade in Natalia Makarova’s La Bayadère, Pas de Trois and a Big Swan in Swan Lake, Stomper in Twyla Tharp’s In the Upper Room, Friend Variation in Marius Petipa’s Raymonda, Clark Tippet’s Bruch Violin Concerto, Christopher Wheeldon’s VIII and the first principal Pas de Deux in DGV: Danse a Grand Vitesse.
Basmagy joined the corps de ballet of American Ballet Theatre in October 2011. Her soloist roles with ABT include the Tall Pas D’Action in Natalia Makarova’s La Bayadere, the Spanish Dance in Kevin McKenzie’s Swan Lake, the Spanish Dance and the Sugarplum Fairy in Alexei Ratmansky’s The Nutcracker, Madame in Kenneth MacMillian’s Manon, and a Harlot in Kenneth MacMillian’s Romeo and Juliet as well as roles in Kevin McKenzie’s The Sleeping Beauty; Alexei Ratmansky’s The Sleeping Beauty, The Bright Stream, Firebird, and Symphony #9; Lar Lubovitch’s Othello; Giselle; Don Quixote; John Cranko’s Onegin; Fredrick Ashton’s Sylvia and Cinderella; Le Corsaire; George Balanchine’s Theme and Variations and Symphony in C; Fredrick Franklin’s Coppelia, among others.
