Ashley Carter is a NYC-based dancer/teacher/choreographer on faculty at Ballet Academy East, and Ballet Hispanico; and previously for Ellison Ballet in New York.  She also has taught at Peridance, Broadway Dance Center, Steps on Broadway, Barnard in New York City; also the Barcelona Jazz Dance Festival, Lines Dance Center in San Francisco, University of Hawaii, West Hawaii Dance Theatre, Bender Performing Arts in Phoenix, Wayne Ballet in Philadelphia, The Dance Foundation in Birmingham, and others.

She can be seen working alongside artists such as Ricky Martin, NeYo, Lady Sovereign, Nicki Minaj, Cam’ron and Mila Kunis, for companies like Pilobolus, Daniel Gwirtzman, Germaul Barnes/Viewsic Expressions, Ruddur Dance; for brands like Netflix, Nike, Athleta, Nokia, Pixar, Microsoft, Heineken, Yahoo, Ameriprise, Columbia Sportswear, the Rachel Ray Show and Lush Cosmetics.  She was invited to Madrid to teach at the Association of Dance Professionals and choreograph for Spanish recording artist Nuria Elosegui.  Ashley performed in Sia’s music video “Soon We Will Be Found”, in Central Park Summerstage, in a Boost Mobile commercial, danced in a feature film with Justin Timberlake, and is credited with choreographing independent feature film “The Ride of Tom and Valkyrie”.  Ashley was featured in the original dance film “Here We Go Again” (dir. Nathan Cohen), feature film “Has Anyone Else Lost Their Body” (IMDB 2025), performed many seasons of Nutcrackers, danced in “The Barber of Seville” with the Amore Opera, and worked on a production of “Peter Pan” for Broadway Asia. Ashley has toured multiple seasons with the dance/circus company Caroline Calouche & Co; in 2022 she performed in the acclaimed movie/musical “The Confession” for Blue Gate Musicals [imdb 2023], and also joined the Hawaii cast of the touring full-length contemporary ballet “The Queen of Nöri” (2022); and co-choreographed “Planets” (2023), and “Vivaldi” (2024).

Her choreography has been featured in the YAGP finals multiple years, including Grand Prix finishes.

Ashley has choreographed many full-length shows for the company DoubleTake Dance (www.DoubleTakeDanceCo.com) that she co-directs with Vanessa Martínez de Baños.