Ashley Knox
Hometown: Shelby Township, Michigan
Native of Michigan. Knox began dancing at the young age of 3 studying ballet under the direction of Cornelia Sampson at The Rochester School of Dance. After spending summers at The School of American Ballet, she was invited to attend their year-round program at the age of 15 where she continued training an additional two years. She then moved her studies to the Miami City Ballet School and shortly after joined Miami City Ballet as an apprentice in 2002. She was promoted to Corps de Ballet in 2003, Soloist in 2017, and Principal in 2021.
Since joining the company, Knox has been featured in George Balanchine’s ballets such as Apollo, Serenade, Stravinsky Violin Concerto, and Jewels. Jerome Robbin’s In the Night, and Dances at a Gathering. Christopher Wheeldon’s After the Rain and This Bitter Earth. And most recently featured in Alexei Ratmansky’s Swan Lake, as Odette/Odile. She has joined MCB on acclaimed tours to New York City, Los Angeles, The Kennedy Center, Vancouver, Copenhagen and Paris. Knox has had the honor of dancing internationally as a guest artist in Australia, Germany, Italy, and Japan. Along with her dancing, Knox has also enjoyed opportunities to teach Master Classes and Summer Intensives in the United States and Europe. This fall, Knox will commence her twenty-fourth season dancing with Miami City Ballet.
Knox is also proud to hold the record of being an eight-time U.S. National Champion of Scottish Highland Dance, as well as being the third American to win the title of World Champion in Cowal, Scotland in 1999.
Knox was a Miami City Ballet School Alumnus.
Roles since joining MCB
Roles since joining MCB
Richard Alston
Carmen
Ricardo Amarante
Delight
Sir Frederick Ashton
Les Patineurs
George Balanchine
Agon
Allegro Brilliante
Apollo (Polyhymnia)
Ballet Imperial (Pas de Trois)
Ballo della Regina
Bouree Fantasque
Bugaku
Concerto Barocco (Second Violin)
Divertimento No.15
“Diamonds” from Jewels
Donizetti Variations
Elegie
“Emeralds” from Jewels
Episodes
George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker® (Dewdrop, Sugar Plum)
La Sonnambula
La Source
La Valse
Raymonda
Pas de Dix
Raymonda Variations
“Rubies” from Jewels
Scotch Symphony (Scotch Girl)
Serenade (Waltz Girl, Russian Girl)
Slaughter on Tenth Avenue
Stravinsky Violin Concerto (Aria II)
Stars and Stripes
Square Dance
Swan Lake, Act II
Symphony in C (Fourth Movement Principal)
Symphony in Three Movements (Turning Girl)
The Four Temperments
Theme and Variations
Valse Fantasie (1953)
Western Symphony
Who Cares?
August Bournonville
“Flower Festival Pas de Deux”
Brian Brooks
One Line Drawn
John Cranko
Romeo and Juliet
Alonzo King
Following the Subtle Current Upstream
Pontus Lidberg
Petrichor
José Limón
The Moor’s Pavane
Justin Peck
Heatscape
Year of the Rabbit
Alexei Ratmansky
Concerto DSCH
Symphonic Dances
Swan Lake (Odette/Odile)
The Fairy’s Kiss
Jerome Robbins
Antique Epigraphs
Dances at a Gathering
Fanfare
I’m Old Fashioned
In the Night (Couple #1)
The Concert
West Side Story Suite
Brahms/Handel
Jamar Roberts
Sea Change
Liam Scarlett
Euphotic
Viscera
Paul Taylor
Arden Court
Company B
Funny Papers
Mercuric Tidings
Sunset
Twyla Tharp
In The Upper Room
NIGHTSPOT
Nine Sinatra Songs (Softly)
Push Comes to Shove
Sweet Fields
Brahms/Handel
Anthony Tudor
Lilac Garden
Durante Verzola
La Folia
PAGANINI, In Play
Sentimiento
Edward Villella
The Neighborhood Ballroom
Christopher Wheeldon
After The Rain
This Bitter Earth
Polyphonia (Waltz Couple)
Classical Repertoire
“Aurora’s Wedding” Marius Petipa
Coppélia, Arthur Saint-Leon
Don Quixote, Marius Petipa and Alexander Gorsky
Giselle, Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot
Paquita, Marius Petipa
