As a performer Amanda has had the pleasure to work with Jennifer Backhaus, Rachel Erdos, Tommie Waheed-Evans, Pioneer Winter, Yin Yue, Ido Tadmor, Walter Matteini, and Dwight Rhoden.
She 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’s 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.