Aly Rose currently teaches Chinese Contemporary Dance at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. She also is an Asia 21 Young Leader of the Asia Society. She lectures and performs at the China Institute, Columbia University, and Sarah Lawrence College in New York.

In China, Aly is director and head-choreographer of the dance theater production Phoenix, which was chosen to close the 2006 Dashanzi International Art Festival. She pioneered the building and creation of the independent art space Sanctuary located in Beijing’s 798 Art District.

In 2005 she starred as the principal dancer portraying Minnie Vautrin in the dance drama, Nanjing 1937 with the Communist Party’s China National Song and Dance Operatic Troupe. In addition, she worked with Warner Brothers, to help produce and create, in China, the world premiere of John Clifford’s Casablanca, the Dance. In 2003, she was the head-choreographer for Lady in the Dark, the first American Broadway musical to be seen on a Chinese stage.

Prior to this, Aly took first prize at the International Golden Lotus Cup Dance Competition, with the piece One Woman Show. In 2002, she received her M.F.A. in choreography, becoming the first and only Westerner in the history of China to graduate from the Beijing Dance Academy, the finest institution for dance in Asia.

After graduating in 2002, she served as an educator and choreographer at the Beijing Dance Academy. During her tenure as a teacher, Aly also hosted and wrote for CCTV International’s Center Stage, interviewing distinguished artists, discussing their work, and promoting Chinese performance for audiences abroad.

Aly graduated from Claremont McKenna College with a B.A. in Psychology and emphasis in Dance. She first went to China in 1994 and later returned in 1997 to live with the Miao and Buyi peoples, as well as learn Mandarin in China’s poorest province, Guizhou.

She currently choreographs in New York and has premiered her most recent work at the Symphony Space Theatre April 30, 2008.