Ashlee Dance

Biography

Ashlee Dance is a dance educator, choreographer, and interdisciplinary artist. She holds a BFA in Dance/Choreography from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (2018) and an MFA in Choreography from the California Institute of the Arts (2022).

Ashlee trained in multiple dance styles and deepened her contemporary and modern practice through studies in Graham, Cunningham, Horton, and Safety Release techniques. She has worked with artists such as Janet Lily, Clarice Young, Justin Tornow, Robin Gee, B.J. Sullivan, and Maurice Watson. In 2017, she performed in the Martha Graham tribute Prelude to Action at the Joyce Theater.

Her professional experience includes freelance choreography in New York City, where she collaborated with arts non-profits to bring programs into public schools, and a 2021 guest commission with Still Inspired Dance Company in Chicago. In California, she expanded her practice by integrating multimedia into her choreography, further establishing her voice as an interdisciplinary artist.

Ashlee’s work has been recognized with a nomination for the 2022–2023 AICAD Teaching Fellowship, the premiere of her dance film at the Greensboro Dance Film Festival, and her role as choreography assistant for the Rashaun Mitchell & Silas Riener Dance Company. She was awarded the 2023–2024 Artist in Residence at the Dance Project and recently joined the guest faculty of the UNCSA Summer Intensive, teaching jazz technique.

Currently, Ashlee serves as Program Director for Edge Performing Arts and as an instructor for competitive teams in North Carolina. She is also an adjunct faculty member at UNC Greensboro, her alma mater. Certified in Progressing Ballet Technique (PBT), she is passionate about adjudicating and teaching master classes in Contemporary and Jazz across the United States.

Ashlee identifies as a freelance artist, performer, filmmaker, and educator, committed to pushing the boundaries of dance and arts education.