career strategy for dancers
Navigating a career and an identity as an artist can be beautiful and inspiring—and it can be overwhelming, lonely, and confusing. Getting support to help you build or transition your career, can help you make decisions that move you towards the life you want to live.
This course will help you define, create, and sustain work that honors your calling to create, your needs and values, and your drive to engage in the world.
We focus on careers “in and through dance” to create frameworks to grow and understand opportunities—both in creative fields and ways to mobilize your knowledge to many fields.
Career Strategy for Dancers
coming early 2025
Meet Ashley
I help performing artists grow sustainable careers in and through the arts. I’m a Licensed Graduate Professional Counselor (#LGP13487) in Maryland and an advocate for dance and movement education.
I hold a PhD in Dance Studies from The Ohio State University, an MEd from the University of Virginia in Counselor Education, and a BFA in Modern Dance from the University of Utah.
I have worked at colleges, universities, and K12 independent and international schools as a dance professor and as a learning specialist. For nine years, I directed a psychoeducational-arts nonprofit organization and in that time I created the framework that still guides my work: Action, Support, Curiosity, Challenge, and Resilience. These vectors with thinking, feeling, and moving dimensions can help us shape our way through the world.
I’m now the owner of Small Space Education & Therapy, a somatic psychotherapy, education, and Pilates practice in Maryland.
Photo credit: Jenny K. O’Brien
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Advanced
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Bronze
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Silver
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Gold
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Course Modules
“Ashley is a gem—brilliant, empathetic, capable, and creative. Her deep knowledge across multiple fields allows her to offer invaluable advice and support on a wide range of topics. She’s my go-to for everything, whether it’s having an expert eye review a document, seeking counsel on a tough life decision, or needing encouragement to achieve a goal..”
— Mandy Kirschner Salva
Former company member Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Authorized Teacher and Stager
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