Finding Home
Aesha Ash
Aesha has been a professional ballet dancer for 13 years. After attending the legendary School of American Ballet, she joined the New York City Ballet at the age of 18, where she remained for eight years dancing numerous soloist and principal roles. Aesha then joined the legendary Bejart Ballet, in Lausanne Switzerland, as a soloist. After enjoying success in Europe, she returned to the United States in 2005 where she joined Alonzo King’s Lines Ballet. After a tremendous amount of growth and learning, Aesha went freelance, and she began working with Morphoses, founded by Christopher Wheeldon. Aesha has been featured in Dance Magazine, Pointe Magazine, Bazaar, Marie Claire, the New York Times and the San Francisco Chronicle, to name a few. You will find Aesha featured in the New York City Ballet, Workout II, Barbie Nutcracker, as well as the principal dance double for Zoe Saldana in the movie Center Stage. She is the recipient of the prestigious Mae L. Wein Award and in 2016 was honored by The National Women’s History Museum with the “Women Making History” Award.
Upon retiring, Aesha began The Swan Dreams Project. Using her career as a dancer along with photography, the goal of the project is to convey the message that beauty and talent are not constrained by race or socioeconomic status. The project teaches youth that they are not limited by stereotypes, nor by their environment, but only by their dreams. Through the project Aesha visits schools to speak to children, holds free after school camps, as well as a summer camp in Rochester, NY. During this camp kids are exposed to ballet, art, nutrition, etiquette and so much more.