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​Ashley Alexandra Wright
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Ashley Alexandra Wright (Australia) is a choreographer, dancer, and composer whose practice navigates the intersections of dance, visual art, and music. His work explores perception, spatial relationships, and the body as a site of inquiry, often challenging conventional boundaries within the performing arts. Trained at the Australian Ballet School and the Victorian College of the Arts, she began her professional career with the Royal Ballet of Flanders (2005–2012) and l’Opéra de Lyon (2012–2016) before transitioning to independent work in 2017. She is currently based in Frankfurt, Germany, and is a member of the Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company.
Ashley’s choreographic and improvisational practice is deeply influenced by the porous relationship between physicality, sound, and space. Drawing on elements of sensory awareness and embodied listening, her methodologies resist rigid structure, inviting a destabilization of habitual patterns to allow for intuitive emergence. Her works are slow-burning and meticulously crafted, with a keen attention to the interplay between stillness and chaos.
Her choreographic works have been commissioned by companies including the Royal Ballet of Flanders, l’Opéra de Lyon, and Tanztheater Hannover, and her work has been presented internationally at venues such as Les Subsistances (Lyon), HELLERAU (Dresden), and Ufer Studios (Berlin). Most recently, her multidisciplinary project LANDBREAKERS—a convergence of movement, painting, sound, and garment design—has been exhibited at galleries in Hamburg and Madrid, at Frankfurt LAB, and at the Venice Biennale of Architecture (2022, 2024).
Her teaching practice reflects these principles, emphasizing heightened sensory awareness, improvisational tools, and shared exploration. She regularly leads workshops at institutions such as Mousonturm Tanzhaus Frankfurt and Zurich University of the Arts, creating spaces for participants to reimagine movement and presence.
In 2018, Ashley expanded her creative scope by studying music production in Paris. Today, her compositions are integral to her choreographic work and are featured in commissions for film, art installations, and live performance. Whether crafting intricate sonic landscapes or deconstructing the boundaries of physical form, Ashley’s practice is a continuous inquiry into the potentials of movement, sound, and social narrative to reflect and transform human experience.
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