BIO
BIOGRAPHY
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Known for insightful performance that renegotiates the audience/performer relationship, Amanda Krische is an interdisciplinary movement artist, writer, educator, and herbalist creating socially-engaged work at the intersection of gender studies, mythopoetics, neuroscience, and ecology. Through the prism of dance and multidisciplinary performance, she creates transformative ritual experiences that tell spectacular stories of the everyday while imagining new possibilities of community healing. Her work is used as a platform to practice anthropologies of relationship: between self and the body, between two bodies, between the human and other-than-human.
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Her work has been shown nationally at such venues as the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Carnegie Hall, Moody Performance Hall, Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater, and The Kitchen, as well as in public spaces such as shopping malls, public parks, and gallery spaces. Her work has been commissioned and supported by the National YoungArts Foundation, Grace Farms Foundation, and Bombshell Dance Project. She has received support from the Jerome Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, the National YoungArts Foundation, and the American Foundation for Bulgaria. She was the recipient of a 2018 Grant from the Jerome Foundation to support research on mental time travel and the subjective experience of thinking for a new choreographic process at the University of Cambridge in the UK. Amanda has conducted residencies at Omi International Arts Center, Modern Arts Depot, Keshet Arts, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Arts Center, and Kaatsbaan Cultural Park. She just completed a Spring 2023 residency at The Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France where her research focused on the grieving rituals and mythologies syncretic ally developed along the trade routes of the Mediterranean basin, to inform a new multidisciplinary performance work and social practice.
Dedicated to the exploration of the new frontiers created through the practice of collaboration, she has contributed choreography to projects with musician Samora Pinderhughes, filmmaker Christian Padron, and numerous psychologists and neurologists who study the body, memory, and mental time travel in the laboratory environment.
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Trained as an herbalist and flower essence practitioner under the tutelage of noted practitioners such as Robin Rose Bennett, Liz Migliorelli, Marysia Miernowska, and Sajah Popham, Amanda also devotes her practice to bringing people into ecological relationship, exploring the possibilities of healing and belonging inherent in their bodies. She does this through workshops, 1:1 consultations, and ritual facilitation.
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She has been on faculty at LaGuardia Arts High School, MOVENYC, and has taught workshops at Gibney, NYU, and Cooper Union School of Art. She has created interdisciplinary movement curriculum in collaborations with the Louis Armstrong House Museum (Queens, NY), the Pina Bausch Foundation (Wuppertal, Germany), and Queens College. Amanda is a YoungArts Winner in Modern Dance and a United States Presidential Scholar in the Arts.