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Hometown: North Carolina

Height: 5'4"

Age: 21

Favorite Dance Genre: Anything

Ultimate Dance Goal: To be in a company that is constantly creating new work and work that is responsive to what is going on in our lives presently.

Quote: “"The end is where we start from"”
— T.S. Eliot

Chelsea Ainsworth, originally from North Carolina is a senior dancer at the Juilliard School. Her dance training began at the age of 8 at Pierrette Sadler Dancers where she studied Jazz, Ballet, Tap, and Modern dance for competition dancing. After many competitions she was accepted into the North Carolina School of the Arts in high school as a ballet major. She participated in Youth America Grand Prix in the 2003-2004 and 2005 years and won first place in the contemporary category.

As a student she has performed works by Adam Hougland, David Parker, Johannes Wieland, Twyla Tharp, and Jose Limon. She teaches creative movement lessons and works with some local non-profit organizations, ASTEP (Artist Striving to End Poverty), CLIMB, (Combining Literacy in Musical Beginnings) and TOC Music (Ten O'clock Classics). Through successful arts immersion projects in the communities of Florida, New Orleans, Bronxville, North Carolina, California, New York City, The Philippines, and New Jersey she has provided free, accessible arts education and free, public performances.

This awareness has led her to dedicate herself to founding the seeds of art in communities where arts education is not well-established, as well as starting her own LLC MOSAIC (Merging Our Specific Arts & Inspiring Collaboration) that focuses on interdisciplinary performance as well as educational outreach. In the upcoming years she hopes to continue her work with MOSAIC as well as dance in a full-time dance company.

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