ashley selmer

Ashley Selmer is trained in Jazz, contemporary, ballet, hip-hop and African. Ashley’s credits include SHAPESHIFT self-titled productions: Grey Skies Blue, XI:XI, and XI:XI: The Awakening; Choreographer for hip-hop musical Last Stop On Market Street (Minneapolis Children’s Theatre); Associate Choreographer In The Heights, Jesus Christ Superstar (Ordway Center for Performing Arts); Ensemble West Side Story, 2nd Assistant Director Irving Berlin’s White Christmas (Ordway); Ensemble The Amen Corner (Guthrie/Penumbra Theater); Film/TV credits include: Commercial, MN Zoo, African Penguin Exhibit.  You also may have seen Ashley on the concert stage for The Official Prince Tribute with her SHAPESHIFT squad at Xcel Energy Center (Tori Kelly) or at We Day (Paul Abdul, Natalie La Rose, OMI). In the studio, Ashley draws from life’s real and imaginary experiences to craft stories that emote feelings and reflect diversity & inclusion.

She emphasizes technique while utilizing each dancer’s unique and beautiful movements as tools for telling, moving, and interwoven narratives. Ashley encourages SHAPESHIFT dancers to openly share their personal experiences, and together they design choreography that captures common elements that make us the same, in so many ways, despite our socioeconomic or racial differences. 

Ashley is a Rom-com collector, lover of overpriced latte's and vintage furniture. She is annoyingly organized (as her friends and family tell us). Ashley earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts (emphasis in choreography and performance) from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.