Ashleigh Musk (she/her) is a dancer, choreographer, dramaturg and community arts facilitator based on unceded Arrernte Country (Mparntwe/Alice Springs) in the Northern Territory (Australia).

Ashleigh has performed and toured with artists and companies including Marrugeku, GUTS Dance, Jenni Large, Liesel Zink, Daniele Constance, STOMPIN, Jamaal Burkmaar, Denada Dance Theatre and Tami Dance Company. She recently collaborated with Daniele Constance to create the large-scale community work ‘Looks Like a Tourist’, premiering at Horizon Festival (Gubbi Gubbi Country) in 2022.

Her work ‘Fertile Ground’, co-created with Michael Smith, premiered at Metro Arts in May 2021 before touring to SPRING.LOADED.DANCE (Mparntwe, NT) and MONA FOMA 2022 (lutruwita, in collaboration with STOMPIN). Through the Sunshine Coast Council’s Place to Play program she created ‘Beats x Caloundra’ a site responsive participatory work presented at the Caloundra Regional Gallery. She presented From Infancy (supported by Red Hot Arts Central Australia and Arts NT) at the 2022 Desert Festival in Mparntwe. She currently developing SUB (in partnership with GUTS Dance, Darwin Festival and Tasdance).

She was the co-founder of AGITART (Figueres, Spain), an an annual international dance festival - Figueres es mou, audience engagement projects, a touring dance company, theatre programming and collaborations with international partners.

Ashleigh has a long history working with young people, using dance as a tool for expression, confidence and creativity. From 2013-2018 she was a facilitator for COSMOU and CONARTE (Catalunya, Spain), leading movement workshops and creating multidisciplinary performances with young people. She has been a choreographic collaborator for ‘Alice Can Dance’ with GUTS Dance since 2018, creating large-scale contemporary dance works with over 250 young people in Mparntwe. She has also worked in remote communities as part of Artists on Tour with Artback NT since 2019.

She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance Performance) (QUT) as well as a Postgraduate Diploma of Contemporary Dance from the Northern School of Contemporary Dance (UK) and a Postgraduate in Production and Cultural Event Management from the University of Barcelona (Spain).