Ava Girard

Ava grew up dancing in New England, training throughout her teens at Koltun Ballet Boston and New England School of Dance in Manchester, NH. She received summer training at Bossov Ballet Theatre, Bates Dance Festival, The Juilliard School, and Jacob?s Pillow Dance Festival, and has had the pleasure of attending the Mark Morris Dance Group?s summer intensives for several years on scholarship. After graduating high school in 2019, Ava spent six months in NYC studying Graham, Horton, and Taylor technique and training with the RIOULT Repertory Training Program under the direction of Charis Haines, with the Jennifer Muller/The Works Scholarship Program, and with the Mark Morris Dance Group. In December 2019 Ava performed with the Mark Morris Dance Group in its tour of The Hard Nut in Seattle, WA.

Ava is now excited to be engaging with the dance world of New England. She is a core member of the Olga Dunn Dance Company of Great Barrington, MA, and was delighted to begin working with NSquared Dance Company in Fall of 2021. Ava also loves to choreograph, and hopes to stage her own work more in the coming years. Ava is pursuing a BA in Performing Arts through the LEAP Program of Saint Mary?s College of California.