Dance Performance Intentions
My intention is to dance as an expression of love.
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I see entertainment, such as live dance performance, as holistic sustenance: nourishment for the mind, body, and spirit, exchanged between entertainers and audience.
"The original sense of the word 'entertainment' is a lovely one of mutual support through intertwining, like a pair of trees grown together, interwoven, each sustaining and bearing up the other."
-Michael Chabon
Live dance performance is an opportunity for performers and audience members to bear each other up as we exchange presence, attention, and energy.
Bio
Ava grew up dancing in New England, training throughout her teens at Koltun Ballet Boston and New England School of Dance. She received summer training at Bossov Ballet Theatre, Bates Dance Festival, The Juilliard School, and Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, and had the pleasure of attending the Mark Morris Dance Group’s summer intensives for several years on scholarship. After graduating high school in 2019, Ava spent six months in NYC studying Graham, Horton, and Taylor technique and training with the RIOULT Repertory Training Program under the direction of Charis Haines, with the Jennifer Muller/The Works Scholarship Program, and with the Mark Morris Dance Group. In December 2019 Ava performed with the Mark Morris Dance Group in its tour of The Hard Nut in Seattle, WA.
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Ava has performed with the Olga Dunn Dance Company since 2016, and had the pleasure of working with NSquared Dance Company from 2021-2024. She now creates and performs solo and collaborative work at local theaters and festivals. Ava teaches ballet, pointe, and mindful movement classes at several New England dance studios, as well as online adult conditioning classes. In 2022 she received a 200-hour movement teacher training through LifeWorks Studio of Great Barrington, MA, which informs her curiosity-led approach to dance and conditioning classes. Ava is in the final period of earning a BA in Performing Arts through Saint Mary’s College of California’s LEAP Program.