Instructor

Ashley Pirkle

Miss Ashley Pirkle has been dancing since she was a child. She has been on competition teams since her second year of dance, and assisting her teachers in classes since she was 9 years old. She has studied and been classically trained in many different styles of dance such as: Ballet, Pointe, Contemporary, Modern, Jazz, Tap and Clogging. She has participated in Adrenaline Dance Convention, in which she received two scholarships, West Coast Dance Explosion, and Jump. She has perfomred in presentations such as The Nutcracker, Little Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretel, and has performed in the Miss South Carolina and Miss South Carolina Teen pageants. Ashley has taken many master classes with top choreographers and dancers such as Brandon Tyler, Eric Campros, Paul Franklin, and Pavel Romanyuk. Ashley has also taken from Glen Irby, Elizabeth Williams, Libby Landis, and Wayne Burritt. Ashley enjoys sharing her passion of dance with others, and strives to bring out the best in young dancers!