Doubletake dance studio7/26/2023 ![]() The variety of Carter and Martinez de Baños’ background has clearly fueled the direction of DT. “I try to do as much as I can, which makes me versatile and stops me from ever getting bored.” “I’m passionate about my job and nourish every opportunity that comes my way,” she says. Like Carter, Martinez de Baños strives to continue to learn and push herself further. ![]() She has also taught master classes both nationally and internationally. Martinez de Baños has danced for many choreographers, including Guillem Alonso, Lynn Schwab and Ryan Beck, and has choreographed for musical theatre and contemporary companies. ![]() She moved to NYC after receiving a scholarship from the Spanish Ministry of Culture. Martinez de Baños, on the other hand, was born in Madrid, Spain, and began her career as an actress, which led into musical theatre and then a love for dance. “The variety is something that I also try to bring to DoubleTake Dance.” “It’s the huge range of work that prevents me from ever getting bored and it challenges me every day,” Carter says. As a choreographer, Carter has created work for a FuseTV commercial incorporating pop and breakdance and also for a sci-fi movie that required modern and contemporary.ĭoubleTake Dance Company dancers, including co-directors Vanessa Martinez de Baños (center) and Ashley Carter (right), in performance. Carter has also taught at such renowned dance studios as Broadway Dance Center, Steps, Ballet Arts and Lines, and for the past few years has successfully maintained her own contemporary jazz class at Peridance. She enjoys doing artistic company work but has also had the chance to dance in music videos, commercials and industrials for brands such as Nike, Lush, Microsoft and Nokia. Carter, primarily New York-trained, has performed with companies and artists ranging from Pilobolus to Nicki Minaj. ![]() It’s hard enough with two of us!”Ĭarter and Martinez de Baños come from entirely different dance backgrounds. And I’m really glad I didn’t try to do it alone. “I never really planned to have my own company,” Carter says. Carter and Martinez de Baños only hope that their joint hard work can take them further. The company performed at NYC’s SummerStage last year and continuously performs throughout NYC festivals and venues, and has even performed in Madrid. From there, other companies began to ask Carter to choreograph on them, and after a while she just started submitting work under her own name and came to find she was getting a good response.ĭT as a company and name was born in 2010 and since then has continued to grow. The company’s repertory includes works that are tango, theater, jazz, contemporary, tap and neoclassical, a range that may be standard for large companies but less prevalent among smaller dance companies.Ĭo-directors Carter and Vanessa Martinez de Baños built New York City-based DT from scratch when Martinez de Baños saw something in Carter and encouraged her to start teaching and choreographing. Looking deeper into it, though, DoubleTake (DT) Dance Company is a rare fusion of different dancers and genres of dance, with each work being completely different from the next and each with a strong message. At first glance, it’s another dance company. Ashley Carter probably chose the name DoubleTake for a reason. ![]()
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