Amanda Kay White
Assistant Professor, Instructional Faculty Intro to Dance Studies, Jazz, Modern
College of Performing Arts; Department of Dance
Office Location: Sandi Simon Center for Dance 016
Email: awhite@chapman.edu
Website: http://www.amandakaywhite.com/
- Education:
- Chapman University, Bachelor of Fine Arts
Chapman University, Bachelor of Arts
Biography
Amanda Kay White is a founding/current member and associate artistic director of Orange
County California’s critically acclaimed dance company Backhausdance. She is a proud
alumna of Chapman University with a BFA in Dance Performance and a BA in Communication
Arts with an emphasis in Advertising. Amanda graduated with a Master of Fine Arts
in Choreography from Jacksonville University. Amanda Kay White’s research interests
delve into the entanglement of bodily knowledge, embodied cognition, and spatial theory
through the medium of choreography. Finding points of access to these physical collections
of experience and memory makes her work strikingly inventive. Her inventive choreographic
works have been showcased at Highways Performance Space, Orange County Museum of Art,
Pasadena Dance Festival, Oulu Dance Hack, Centro Negra, Chapman Touring Company, American
College Dance Festival and MixMatch Dance Festival. Amanda is currently on faculty
at Santa Ana College, Chapman University, Orange County School of the Arts and South
Coast Conservatory.
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Recent Creative, Scholarly Work and Publications