{"id":50741,"date":"2022-06-01T16:31:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T20:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/people\/ashley-l-tate\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T15:07:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T19:07:33","slug":"ashley-l-tate","status":"publish","type":"people","link":"https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/people\/ashley-l-tate\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashley L. Tate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ashley L. Tate is a director, choreographer, educator, and performer from Saint Louis, Missouri.&nbsp;&nbsp;She is an assistant professor of dance at UNC Charlotte, an affiliate faculty member with the Department of Africana Studies,&nbsp;and founder, artistic director, and executive director of Ashleyliane Dance Company (ADC). ADC is a professional performance organization based in St. Louis, MO with a mission to cultivate diverse repertory, create safe educational spaces, and promote the intersection of dance and social issues.&nbsp; Tate earned her BS degree in Computer Information Science from Texas Christian University and received her MFA in Dance from Washington University in St. Louis, where she was a recipient of the Spencer T &amp; Ann W. Olin Fellowship for Women in Graduate Study.&nbsp;&nbsp;Her current research focus is centered around dance as a method of investigation, a tool for community engagement, and a vehicle for social change and self-reflection.&nbsp;She has been invited to present her research at several conferences and conventions, including the&nbsp;European Hip Hop Studies Network 2024 Conference in Cork, Ireland.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tate recently served as an adjunct professor of dance at Saint Louis University, Washington University in St. Louis, Webster University, and Southeast Missouri State University, and as the former chair of the dance department at Grand Center Arts Academy. She is a recipient of Grand Center\u2019s Emerging Artist Visionary Award and has served as a judge for the Fox Performing Arts Charitable Foundation\u2019s Teen Talent Showcase for several years. She is also a winner of the Pulse On Tour Dance Convention Prot\u00e9g\u00e9 Scholarship, a Monsters of Hip Hop Scholarship (and a former Monsters Show Nominee), and was formerly signed as a dancer and dance educator with Clear Talent Group in Los Angeles, California.&nbsp;Her work has been featured in showcases at the Peridance Capezio Center, TADA! Theater, and Baruch Performing Arts Center in New York City,&nbsp;as well as the Black Choreographers Festival in Baltimore, Maryland, the&nbsp;Choreographer\u2019s Carnival in Chicago, Illinois, and Versatility Dance Festival in Boulder, Colorado, and Santa Monica, California.&nbsp;She is also the co-producer of Dance the Vote, a non-partisan grassroots arts-based voter registration initiative founded by Joan Lipkin. In April 2023, she was&nbsp;a key participant in the nationally recognized&nbsp;No Tears Project,&nbsp;a&nbsp;multidisciplinary festival founded by Oxford American Magazine in 2017 to honor&nbsp;Civil Rights history.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/news\/2023-04-28\/dance-professor-featured-notears-project-st-louis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read more about the project and her contributions here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tate has choreographed for the concert stage, NCAA\/NFL basketball and football halftime shows, studio recitals, theatre productions and&nbsp;national and regional dance competitions. She teaches master classes and workshops in contemporary, jazz, hip hop, modern, improvisation, and composition. She was a member of the Saint Louis Rams Football Cheerleaders, serving as a captain for two years.&nbsp;Tate is currently a member of the National Dance Education Organization, the Dance Artist Alliance CLT, and the International Association of Blacks in Dance. Tate also serves as Vice-President of Communications for the North Carolina chapter of the National Dance Education Organization.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/connections\/people\/atate29\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">See her faculty connections profile<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ashley L. Tate is a director, choreographer, educator, and performer from Saint Louis, Missouri.&nbsp;&nbsp;She is an assistant professor of dance at UNC Charlotte, an affiliate faculty member with the Department of Africana Studies,&nbsp;and founder, artistic director, and executive director of Ashleyliane Dance Company (ADC). 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