Ashlea Sovetts is a creative entrepreneur who is able to flow between a variety of different roles. Ashlea’s passion for her work derives from curating experiences from all of her favorite interests: art, wine and wellness.
Ashlea has spent the past decade working as a professional dance artist performing nationally and internationally, an academic professor and an international program administrator developing various academic, artistic and wellness programming in the US and in Italy.
Throughout her career, she has successfully performed, taught and choreographed at different universities, festivals and residencies including: Texas Woman’s University, (TX) University of North Texas, (TX) Winthrop University, (SC) Columbia College, (SC) University of South Carolina (SC) Emory University, (GA) Henderson State University, (AK) OBOC CounterTechnique (NYC), Philly Fringe, (PA) BOOM CLT Festival, (NC), Dance Masters of America, Staibdance Summer Intensive, Sorrento, Italy, the Rensing Center, Liguria, Italy, and more.
Ashlea not only creates and performs, but develops. She has built relationships with international partners in the art sector and wine industry throughout Italy; organized academic and artistic programming nationally and abroad and has collaborated to successfully write, publish and build the Grand Strand Charter Arts high school, a performing arts school in her home community of Myrtle Beach, SC.
Ashlea’s compassionate nature is the focal point for all her community-building initiatives. Her vision is to facilitate inclusive environments at home or abroad for students and clients to feel seen, heard and acknowledged. Her vision unfolds by holding space for intentional conversations to take place over a bottle of wine while sharing art and uplifting, thought-provoking stories. For she is the connector to bring people together, one experience at a time.