Performing Art – New York - NYC
A native New Yorker, Amanda Krische is a choreographer and dancer currently operating out of her home city.
Amanda has performed in such venues as the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Place des Arts, the YoungArts Foundation Backyard Ball, New York Live Arts, Danspace, National Sawdust, and the Joyce Theater. She is a graduate of LaGuardia High School for Music & Art and the Performing Arts and graduated summa cum laude from Purchase College, SUNY with a BFA in Dance. Supplementary training includes Springboard Danse Montreal, a semester abroad at Amsterdam Hoogeschool voor de Kunsten, and many workshops in Tel Aviv, Israel. While at Purchase College, SUNY she began her research of dance making under the mentorship of Doug Varone. She can be seen in the video for the Khirma x Swarovski capsule collection, as well as Xenia Ghali’s music video for “Places”. She has performed in gala productions for the organization YoungArts under the directorship of noted choreographers Bill T. Jones and Rebecca Stenn. Her choreography has been shown in such venues as LaGuardia High School, the Dance Theater Lab at Purchase College, SUNY, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Gallim Dance, the Actors Arts Fund, and Ailey Citigroup Theater. Amanda is the 2016 recipient of the prestigious Bert Terborgh Award, a 2012 YoungArts Winner, and a United States Presidential Scholar in the Arts.
Amanda is most recently dancing for Loni Landon Dance Project, Bodystories:Teresa Fellion Dance, and Nicole von Arx & Guests in addition to creating her own interdisciplinary work at the intersection of movement and scientific research.