Amanda Kay White is a founding 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’s of Fine Arts in Choreography from Jacksonville University. Her 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 also an assistant professor at Chapman University, where she teaches Intro to Dance Studies, Choreography, Modern, Dance Teaching Methods, and helps to coordinate the departments productions.