ASHLEY KLEIN
An original member of Exhale Dance Tribe, Ashley is also the rehearsal director for the company. She has studied with Missy Lay Zimmer and Andrew Hubbard for the past seven years and recently won the 2007 CEA award for Critical Achievement in Choreography for her work as Associate Choreographer in last season’s Christmas Yet To Come.  Originally from Kentucky, Ashley has grown up in the dance world, training with some of today’s finest dance educators:  Keith Clifton, Kristin Denehy, Byron Carter, Andrew Turteltaub and Meredith Benson just to name a few.  Ashley has a passion for teaching, and has built quite a reputation for herself as a top notch instructor in Cincinnati. In addition to teaching for Dance Masters of the Bluegrass, she has also performed with the Cincinnati Ballet and was most recently seen enchanting audiences as one of Titania’s fairies in Cincinnati Shakespeare Company’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.