Spindive Dancefest's mission is to support Atlanta-based independent dance and performing artists in making and sharing work. Through the production of an informal concert, Spindive Dancefest seeks to cultivate connections within the dance community and bolster artistic growth by showcasing new, re-visioned, in-progress or finished works of dance and performance art. 

Spindive Dancefest is a dance concert presented in an informal space. Dance making as a professional career requires a public venue for artists to work towards, so that we engage in making work and come together to strengthen our dance community. For this reason, we accept any form of dance art without adjudication or competition, so that artists at multiple stages of their dance-making career and with a range of creative interests may join. We also primarily support individual artists who do not have access to non-profit grant funding.

This year we are excited to present Spindive Dancefest in the Westminster Room of Covenant Presbyterian Church in the Buckhead Neighborhood of Atlanta. On February 28, we will have two shows and programs at 2:00 and 7:30 pm. 

Help Spindive Dancefest build a valuable opportunity for Atlanta dancers to make and show work, and receive compensation for their creative practice. With partnership with Fractured Atlas, your donation is tax deductible! The highest contributor receives a free Highland Yoga mat!

Ashlee Jo Ramsey-Borunov (she/her)

Ashlee Jo has shown work, performed or taught in North Carolina, South Carolina, New York, Arizona, Austria, the U.K. and India. Her experience as an educator includes dance and yoga courses at Elon University, Wake Forest University, Winthrop University, and Salem College, and she holds a teacher certification with DanceAbility International. Ashlee Jo has been published in the international academic periodical, Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices (2011) and has presented work or research at the NDEO National Conference, The Fifth Annual Somatic Dance Conference and Performance Festival, and Elon University’s Intersect Diversity and Leadership Conference. Currently working in Atlanta, GA, Ashlee Jo is a former company member and current board member with Full Radius Dance, a physically integrated professional dance company. Ashlee Jo performs seasonally with Beacon Dance, a performing arts collective focusing on issues of social justice, equality and activism; and teaches occasionally with CORE Dance’s morning class and Dynamic X-Change program that connects under-resourced communities with movement and art as mediums for creative expression.

Leah Behm

Leah Behm (she/her) is a dance artist who is inspired by the connections and relationships between people and how that can shape the self. She is involved with many locall artists in the freelance dance scene as well as being a company member with EXCAVATE BODY and Beacon Dance. As a 2021 graduate from Emory University, Leah cherishes being a part of the ever flourishing dance community in Atlanta along with all of the amazing artists she has the pleasure of knowing because of it.