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Ashlee Daniels Taylor (they/she) is an interdisciplinary artist, specializing in somatics, dance performance, and interactive media design, based in South Carolina, USA. Taylor is concerned with creating dialogue around the many ways that the moving body can revive human experience and reveal our interconnectedness.

They received an MFA in Dance with an interdisciplinary specialization in Fine Arts from The Ohio State University. Taylor works locally as a performing artist with the Johnson Company and as an artist collaborator with Moving Body Dance Company. She has presented work with the Power Company Collaborative and her own research at the Prague Quadrennial 2019, in Praha, Czech Republic.

Taylor has also participated in dance research at Impulstanz in Wien, Austria. Taylor’s creative research employs rigorous, athletic movement, improvisation, somatic investigation, and experiential media design to explore notions of experience and collaborative processes. Through choreographic research, Taylor strives to stimulate body awareness, encourage personal well-being, and foster connections between individuals to strengthen our communities.

If you would like to see more examples of my creative work, please visit my website