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Updated 2/1/2024

Dance with Ashley/Ashley Hensel-Browning

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    VT

Institution/Business Type: Artist / Creative (Individual)

Ashley Hensel-Browning is a choreographer, dancer, teaching artist and community artist. She is available for both school-based residencies and community arts projects and is primarily interested in developing co-created choreography with different populations of people. Ashley has had experience in intergenerational dance projects, performing arts in prisons, and community center classes. She has taught in camps, libraries, schools, and affordable housing developments. 



Residencies include: 



Choreography: Encourages students to understand and practice the art of dance-making, both exploring and playing with creative movement as well as making their own movement phrases and dances through improvisation. We manipulate time, shape, space, and effort to make our own dances. Experiences are often based on problem-posing methods that encourage experimentation and play. Students are encouraged to share their work with each other throughout the entire process.



Integrated movement classes: Focus on finding connections between movement and other curricular subjects, whether it be choreographic structures and mathematical patterns, narratives in story and movement, physical enactment of historical periods or learning social dances of a particular era, acting out magnetism through the body in pairs, or exploring symmetrical and asymmetrical shape through the body.



Ashley is also available for Spanish classes to teach salsa, merengue, and tango, as well as Russian and German folk dance.

Ashley is an established choreographer and performer who has performed in works by Trisha Brown, Agnes DeMille, Elizabeth Bergman, Amie Dowling, Jim Coleman, Terese Freedman, and Nell Breyer in venues such the International Festival of Art and Ideas, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, MA, and MassMOCA. She regularly choreographs for schools, community events, and regional theaters in Vermont. She choreographed for many years with the Opera Theatre of Weston including productions of The Secret Garden, Noye's Fludde, The Magic Flute, The Little Prince, Die Fledermaus. She directed Hansel and Gretel, The Happy Prince, and The Child and the Magic. Most recently she choreographed an orignal story ballet to Evam Premo's score of Thumbelina.



Availability & Rates:

Residency rates vary greatly depending on preparation needs, travel expenses, and performance options.



Single class: $100-$300

All day workshop: $400-600

Week Residency: $2000-$3000

Find Me

Ashley Hensel-Browning
Job Title: Choreographer, Dance Educator, Teaching Artist
Phone: 802 263 5253
Address:
3057 Weathersfield Center Rd
Perkinsville, VT 05151

About

Overview

Institution/Business Type:

Artist / Creative (Individual)

Legal Status:

Commercial / For profit - Sole proprietorship

Overview

Institution/Business Type:

Artist / Creative (Individual)

Legal Status:

Commercial / For profit - Sole proprietorship

Disciplines

Primary Discipline:

Dance - General

Additional Disciplines:

  • Dance - Traditional

Activities and Services

Activities and Services:

  • Arts for Social Change / Creative Activism
  • Arts and Health
  • Creation of a Work of Art (Including Commissions)
  • Public Art Projects (In Free, Public Spaces)
  • Residency - Other
  • Arts Instruction / Lessons
  • Curriculum Development
  • Residency - In School
  • Workshops / Demonstrations / Master Class
  • Residency - Production / Development
  • Professional Development / Training
  • Performance / Concert / Reading
  • Residency - Community
  • Community Arts
Seasons Active: spring, summer, fall, winter
Events Per Year: 25

Communities

Populations Engaged:

  • Adults
  • Businesses
  • Elders
  • Families
  • General Public
  • Incarcerated (or Formerly Incarcerated) individuals
  • LGBTQ Populations
  • Nonprofits
  • People with Disabilities
  • School Groups
  • Teens
  • Youth-At-Risk

Geographic Reach:

  • Town / City
  • County
  • Multi-County Region
  • State
  • Multi-State Region
  • National
  • International

Accessibility of Services

Accessibility of Services:

  • Access accommodations for people who use a wheelchair and have limited mobility
  • Access accommodations for people who are blind, partially sighted, and have low vision
  • Access accommodations for people who are Deaf and hard-of-hearing

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I Have Worked With

Affiliations and Accomplishments

Education

Education:

  • Ed.M. Harvard Graduate School of Education

Education

Education:

  • Ed.M. Harvard Graduate School of Education

Special Designations

Special Designations:

  • NEFA Grant Recipient

Artist Info

Teaching Artist

Teaching Settings:

  • Afterschool Program
  • Arts and Cultural Center / Venue
  • Community Site / Center
  • Corporate Business
  • Healthcare Facility
  • Private Studio
  • School / University

Ages Served:

  • Pre-Kindergarten-age
  • Elementary School-age
  • Middle School-age
  • High School-age
  • College-age
  • Adults
  • Seniors

Subject Areas:

  • Arts Integration - English Language / Literacy
  • Arts Integration - Foreign Languages
  • Arts Integration - Health
  • Arts Integration - History and Social Science
  • Arts Integration - Mathematics
  • Arts Integration - Physical Education
  • Arts Integration - Science / Technology / Engineering
  • Dance
  • Literature
  • Music
  • Theater

Certifications and Training:

  • Ed.M. Harvard Graduate School of Education, Juried Vermont Teaching Artist

Fee range:

$100 - $4,000

Teaching Artist

Teaching Settings:

  • Afterschool Program
  • Arts and Cultural Center / Venue
  • Community Site / Center
  • Corporate Business
  • Healthcare Facility
  • Private Studio
  • School / University

Ages Served:

  • Pre-Kindergarten-age
  • Elementary School-age
  • Middle School-age
  • High School-age
  • College-age
  • Adults
  • Seniors

Subject Areas:

  • Arts Integration - English Language / Literacy
  • Arts Integration - Foreign Languages
  • Arts Integration - Health
  • Arts Integration - History and Social Science
  • Arts Integration - Mathematics
  • Arts Integration - Physical Education
  • Arts Integration - Science / Technology / Engineering
  • Dance
  • Literature
  • Music
  • Theater

Certifications and Training:

  • Ed.M. Harvard Graduate School of Education, Juried Vermont Teaching Artist

Fee range:

$100 - $4,000

State Arts Agency Roster Artist

  • Vermont Teaching Artist Roster

Touring Artist

Technical Requirements:

  • open space

Fee Range:

$500 - $5,000

State of Residence:

Vermont

Minimum Number of Performers:

1

Maximum Number of Performers:

10