Ashley Everett

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Ashley Everett Biography

Most well known as the singer Beyonce’s dance captain, Everett was one of the featured performers in the hit “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)” music video.

After performing with New York City’s renowned Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, she turned down an offer to train at the Juilliard School in order to join the 2007 Beyonce Experience Tour.

In 2015, she became a Season Three cast member of VH1’s Hit the Floor.

The child of a Caucasian father and an African-American mother, she spent her youth in Chico, California, and later relocated to Los Angeles.

She participated in Usher‘s 2014 to 2015 The UR Experience Tour.

Ashley Chrisha Marie Everett (born April 19, 1989) is an American dancer and actress. She is best known as lead backup dancer and dance captain for Beyoncé, and has worked with such artists as Usher, Jennifer Lopez, Ne-Yo, Tina Turner, Ciara, Sean Paul and Anitta. She frequently features in high-profile music videos, television commercials and concert tours.

At seventeen Everett started working with Beyoncé by dancing in music videos. Beyoncé was working on a video anthology album for B’Day (2006), and was filming multiple videos. Everett danced in “Green Light” and “Get Me Bodied”. Following this, Everett began her first worldwide concert tour with The Beyoncé Experience (2007). Everett performed as a backup dancer for 96 shows. Prior to The Beyoncé Experience, Everett was accepted and enrolled into the Juilliard School, but ultimately decided against going, due to touring with Beyoncé and wanting to pursue her dance career this way.

Everett’s career began at age 16 when she met Beyoncé’s choreographer Frank Gatson, Jr. while dancing at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in 2007. Later that year, Gatson Jr. gave Everett the chance to audition for Beyoncé. At age 17, she dropped out of the Juilliard School to join The Beyoncé Experience Tour, and in 2009 at the age of 19, she became dance captain. Everett has worked with Beyoncé on every major concert tour, many TV commercials, and has danced or acted in over 20 music videos with the singer. She also began to work with other music artists, and expanded her career into acting with a role in the third season of the VH1 series Hit the Floor, which aired in 2015.

In 2008, Everett started by performing with one of her idols, Tina Turner, at the 2008 50th Annual Grammy Awards with Beyoncé. She featured in the video for “Love in This Club” by Usher and began a working relationship with him. In October of the same year, the video for “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)” was released, which featured a J-Setting choreography and contained only Beyoncé, Everett and dancer Ebony Williams. It has since gone viral, amassing over 580 million views and has been recreated thousands of times. It also won the MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year. Everett featured in videos for both “Ego” and “Sweet Dreams” from I Am… Sasha Fierce (2008), and begun her second worldwide tour with Beyoncé, on the I Am… World Tour (2009–10). Here, Everett performed as the female Dance Captain for the entire tour. In 2010, Everett begun a working relationship with Ne-Yo and featured in three of his music videos from his album Libra Scale (2010); “One in a Million”, “Champagne Life” and “Beautiful Monster”. In 2011, Everett featured in three videos from Beyoncé’s 4 (2011).

In 2008, Everett was one of two featured dancers in the music video for “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)”, which amassed over 685 million YouTube views and became world-renowned for its dancing and choreography. Other notable performances with Beyoncé include the 2013 Super Bowl XLVII halftime show, the 2016 Super Bowl 50 halftime show, and Coachella 2018. Distinguishable on stage by her curly, red afro, Everett has amassed a large following among Beyoncé’s fan base. She trained as a contemporary ballet dancer as a child, and has also mastered various styles including tap, ballroom, jazz, and hip hop.

In 2012, Ashley was also one of the dancers on Glee in season 4, episode 16 during Naya Rivera’s performance of Cold Hearted Snake.

On February 3, 2013, Everett served as a lead backup dancer to the Super Bowl XLVII halftime show with Beyoncé. The performance was watched by 110.8 million Americans. Following the performance, Beyoncé announced The Mrs. Carter Show World Tour (2013–14), in which Everett would act as head Dance Captain for 132 shows. In the buildup to the tour, Everett featured in Life Is But a Dream, and television commercials airing worldwide for H&M and in the United Kingdom for O2. Everett appeared in six videos from Beyoncé’s self-titled visual album, including a lead acting role in “Heaven”. Two months after The Mrs. Carter Show concluded, Everett was announced as the lead Dance Captain for Jay-Z and Beyoncé’s all stadium On the Run Tour (2014). Everett performed as a backup dancer for the majority of Usher’s The UR Experience Tour (2014–15), however missed some shows due to filming Hit the Floor. In February 2016, Everett joined Beyoncé at the Super Bowl for a second time during the Super Bowl 50 halftime show, with Beyoncé and Bruno Mars acting as special guests for Coldplay’s headlining performance. The performance was watched by 115.5 million people in America. Following the performance, The Formation World Tour was announced, a 49 date all stadium tour with Everett again serving as dance captain for Beyoncé.

Everett featured in the pilot episode of Hit the Floor, as character Peyton. In late 2014 Everett stated she was filming for the upcoming third season of the series. In 2012 Everett featured in the finale episode of the second season of Shake It Up. In 2013, Everett starred with Beyoncé in the video to “Heaven” from the album Beyoncé (2013). The video is Everett’s first non-dancing role with Beyoncé, and features Everett acting out a variety of “bucket list” scenarios with her on-screen best friend, Beyoncé. Everett has stated how she wants and hopes to get into more acting, including non-dancing roles. She stated in 2014, “Film and cinematography and stuff lasts forever and that’s something that is really really great and really special to me. It’ll last longer than I’m alive and my kids and my grandkids and their kids and their grandkids can always see me and that’s what creates your legacy.”

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