Ashley Paige Romines

Ashley Paige Romines began her dance training at age ten in Sevierville, Tennessee, and at age sixteen continued to pre-professional ballet training at Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet. She then studied on scholarship at the University of Oklahoma and graduated summa cum laude with a BFA in ballet pedagogy.

Ashley Paige performed professionally for three seasons with Northern Ballet Theatre in New Hampshire and taught at several ballet schools throughout the northeast. During her training and professional career, Ashley Paige had the honor to learn from such inspiring teachers as Marcia Dale Weary, Darla Hoover, Mary Margaret Holt, Donn Edwards, Dennis Marshall, Melinda Howe, Leslie Hench, Laurie Jones, Denise Vale, Jeremy Lindberg, Karyn Edison, and many others. After her performance career, Ashley Paige focused on her teaching, choreography, and ballet administration career.

In 2007, Ashley Paige joined Springfield Ballet as the Artistic & School Director, where she spent twelve seasons through 2019. During her tenure and upon her return to the organization from 2021-2025, she choreographed and staged the annual production of The Nutcracker as well as several original full-length and one-act classical and contemporary ballets. Additionally, she attended Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet’s Teacher’s Workshop, with the late Marcia Dale Weary, which is instrumental in her approach and philosophy for training dancers from toddlers to pre-professionals. While Ashley Paige lived in the Denver area from 2019-2021, she was on faculty at Littleton Ballet Academy, Colorado Ballet Academy, and Colorado Conservatory of Dance.

She continues to serve as guest faculty at Littleton Ballet Academy as well as at Springfield Ballet. Having now relocated to the Madison area in 2025, she is excited to share her “passion for dance, poise for life” with the dancers!