Chelsea Ainsworth

After graduating from Juilliard, Chelsea Ainsworth (BFA ’10, dance) worked with Johannes Wieland/StaatstheaterKassel in Germany, Lorena Egan, Flexicure, Amber Sloan, and Bryn Cohn + Artists, and she was on the modern/ballet dance faculty at Cap21 musical theater school and Chen DanceCenter. Ainsworth dances with the Bang Group as well as ZviDance, and she is also the co-founder and executive director of Arts on Site, a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting artists of all disciplines by offering affordable studio space and hosting monthly events to encourage community collaboration. She also built and curates residencies at a retreat and residency center in the Shawangunk Mountains in New York’s Hudson Valley. In 2020, Ainsworth joined the dance advisory board of Marymount Manhattan College.