Ava Grebe / she, her, hers / shadow
Ava is a dancer, choreographer, and teacher, currently living in Boston, Massachusetts. She is excited to join the production of Intersections 2026 for the first time.
Her dance journey began at three years old, when she was introduced to ballet classes by her mom in Baltimore, MD. She couldn’t wait to get her first pair of pointe shoes so she could one day join the student company and dance in ‘Paquita’ and ‘The Nutcracker’s Waltz of the Flowers.’ After Ava and her family moved to Charleston, SC, she attended the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities, where she began to study modern dance styles and experiment with choreographing. She knew she wanted to pursue a life intertwined with art and dance after experiencing the immense joy choreographing gave her.
Ava holds a BFA in Contemporary Dance from the Boston Conservatory at Berklee, where she also studied and performed the works of Aszure Barton, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Gustavo Ramírez Sansano, and Heather Stewart. As a freelance artist, she enjoys working across genres, blending dance into film and physical theater. She enjoys bringing people together through shared movement practice, through teaching contemporary classes and accessible classes with Abilities Dance Boston as a community engagement teacher. One of the most rewarding aspects of her current teaching practice is being able to work with multiple different age groups and backgrounds of people in Boston, which she looks forward to expanding even more.