{"id":38787,"date":"2022-06-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/dance-department-announces-new-dance-professor\/"},"modified":"2024-06-03T10:37:32","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T14:37:32","slug":"dance-department-announces-new-dance-professor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/news\/2022-06-10\/dance-department-announces-new-dance-professor\/","title":{"rendered":"Dance Department Announces New Dance Professor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Dance will welcome Ashley L. Tate to the faculty as a new assistant professor of dance this fall. Tate comes to UNC Charlotte from St. Louis, Missouri, where she served as an adjunct professor of dance at Saint Louis University, Washington University, Webster University, and Southeast Missouri State University, and as the former chair of the dance department at Grand Center Arts Academy. She received her MFA in Dance from Washington University in St. Louis and was a recipient of the Spencer T. &amp; Ann W. Olin Fellowship for Women in Graduate Study. Her current research interests includes the use of dance as a vehicle for community advocacy and collaboration, as well as the visual, auditory, and kinesthetic benefits of hip-hop music and movement. &#8220;Department of Dance faculty, staff, and students are pleased to welcome Ashley Tate to our faculty,&#8221; said chair Ann Dils. &#8220;She is an inspiring hip-hop and jazz teacher whose classes are wonderfully athletic and rich with stylistic and historical information. She has a great record in community engaged research and as a choreographer. And in addition to her work as an artist, Tate will redevelop and teach our Digital Skills for Artists course, building on her experience as a dance company director and &#8216;artrepreneur.'&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>A director, choreographer, educator, and performer, Tate is the founder, artistic director, and executive director of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashleyliane.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ashleyliane Dance Company<\/a> (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. <\/p>\n<p>Tate was a recipient of Grand Center Arts Academy\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. Her work has been featured in showcases at the Peridance Capezio Center, TADA! Theater, and Baruch Performing Arts Center in New York City, as well as the Choreographer\u2019s Carnival in Chicago, Illinois, and Versatility Dance Festival in Boulder, Colorado, and Santa Monica, California. She is also the co-producer of Dance the Vote, a non-partisan grassroots arts-based voter registration initiative founded by Joan Lipkin.<\/p>\n<p>Tate has choreographed for the concert stage, NCAA\/NFL basketball and football halftime shows, studio recitals, theatre productions and 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. Tate is currently a board member for Missouri Dance Organization and a member of the National Dance Education Organization and the International Association of Blacks in Dance. She is also a certified Zumba\u00ae instructor. In addition to her MFA, she holds a BS degree in Computer Information Science from Texas Christian University.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Dance will welcome Ashley L. Tate to the faculty as a new assistant professor of dance this fall. 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