CHELSEA AINSWORTH

CO-FOUNDER | PRODUCER

CHELSEA AINSWORTH is a graduate of The Juilliard School Dance Department. She has performed with Johannes Wieland/Staatstheater Kassel, Lorena Egan, Flexicure, Amber Sloan, and Bryn Cohn + Artists, and taught at CAP21 and Chen Dance Center. Currently, she dances with The Bang Group and ZviDance. Chelsea is co-founder and Executive Director of Arts On Site, a nonprofit offering affordable studio and performance space for artists. She also curates residencies at AOS R&R, a retreat and residency center in upstate New York. Additionally, she co-founded and co-choreographs for Dual Rivet, a contemporary dance company in NYC focused on highly physical dance theater.

DUAL RIVET

DUAL RIVET is a women-led dance company focused on creating and sharing highly physical contemporary dance to a wide audience. Based in NYC, Dual Rivet creates work for stage and film that exchanges a cinematic and visceral language to influence both platforms. Directors Jess Smith and Chelsea Ainsworth have been making and presenting work since 2017. They have performed and set work at Festival PRISMA (Panama), b12 (Berlin), Centro Cultural Los Talleres (Mexico), Barnard College/Columbia University, Sam Houston State University, Oklahoma International Dance Festival, Austin Dance Festival, Joe's Pub, West End Theatre, Kittery Maine, Musikfest Pennsylvania, Gibney Dance, Peridance Capezio Center, CreateArt, Arts On Site and many more. The company teaches a myriad of classes, throughout the United States and internationally, with an emphasis on contemporary partnering and floorwork. Dual Rivet is currently on faculty at The Juilliard School, Gibney, Peridance, SUNY Purchase, Marymount Manhattan College, and Adelphi University. The company hosts an annual choreography festival, MADE BY WOMEN, highlighting women choreographers and filmmakers from around the globe. For more info: www.dualrivetdance.com @dualrivet