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Aesha ash
Aesha Ash
American ballet dancer and teacher
Aesha Ash (born December 30, 1977) is an American ballet dancer and teacher. She danced numerous leading roles as a member of New York City Ballet's corps de ballet and as a soloist with Béjart Ballet and Alonzo King LINES Ballet, and Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company.
Following her retirement from performing, she founded The Swan Dreams Project in 2011 to dispel stereotypes about Black women in ballet. In 2020, she became the first African American female faculty member at the School of American Ballet.
Early life
Ash was born and raised in Rochester, New York. She started ballet, tap and jazz at 5 at a local studio.
Aesha ash biography definition
When she was 10, she switched studio to focus on ballet. At age 13, she traveled to New York City to train at School of American Ballet's summer intensive. She attended the course two more years before being accepted as a full-time student.[1] She won the Mae L.
Wien Awards for Outstanding Promise in 1996.