by April Deocariza | Mar 11, 2021 | Career, Instagram, News, Profiles
Ashley Ellis has enjoyed a storied career that has taken her from American Ballet Theatre to Corella Ballet in Spain, and, during the last decade, to Boston Ballet, where she’s been a principal since 2013. She’s danced leading roles in works by George...
by Madeline Schrock | Oct 18, 2016 | Company Life
Pirates don’t typically pirouette. But next week, they’ll do just that for Boston Ballet’s North American premiere of Ivan Liska’s Le Corsaire. Pointe spoke with Ashley Ellis about her debut as Medora, a woman separated from...
by Amy Brandt | Mar 31, 2016 | Profiles, Show and Tell
Have a question? Send it to Pointe editor in chief and former dancer Amy Brandt at askamy@dancemedia.com. Boston Ballet principal Ashley Ellis has a crafty side. When she started making herself legwarmers a few years ago, her colleagues took notice and started asking...
by Joseph Carman | Mar 31, 2015 | Career
This story originally appeared in the April/May 2015 issue of Pointe. Dancers are arguably harder on themselves than any other performing artists. And because their instruments are their bodies, that self-scrutiny can become ruthlessly personal. By definition,...