BIO

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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 performance at the intersection of ethnography, ritual practice, gender studies, surrealism, mythopoetics, neuroscience, and ecology. 

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A graduate of Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School and Purchase College, SUNY, her work has been shown at such venues as the Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, Joe’s Pub, and The Kitchen, as well as in public spaces such as shopping malls, public parks, and gallery spaces. Her work has been supported by the Jerome Foundation, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, The Rockaway Hotel, and New York Foundation for the Arts. She has been an artist-in-residence at Omi International Arts Center, Kaatsbaan Cultural Park, Perelman Arts Center, the University of Cambridge, and the Camargo Foundation. She is a 2024-2025 YoungArts Fellow, supported by the American Foundation for Bulgaria. 

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She has been on faculty at LaGuardia Arts High School and MOVENYC. She has been a guest teacher and lecturer at Harvard University, NYU, and Cooper Union School of Art. She has created interdisciplinary movement curricula in collaborations with Louis Armstrong House Museum, Pina Bausch Foundation, and Kupferberg Center at Queens College. Amanda is a U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts.