USA Projects

Amy O'Neal is a performer, choreographer, dance educator, and the creator of AmyO/tinyrage. (tinyrage.com)  AmyO/tinyrage has been presented by the TBA Festival 2009, On the Boards Northwest New Works Festival 2010, Northwest Film Forum 2010, and Seattle Theater Group 2011.  From 2000-2010, Amy was co-director of locust (music/dance/video) with musician/composer Zeke Keeble.  locust was presented by On the Boards (Seattle, WA), Seattle Theater Group at the Moore Theater (Seattle, WA), The Myrna Loy Center (Helena, MT), Jacob's Pillow Inside/Out (Becket, MA), Joyce Soho (New York, NY), TBA Festival (Portland, OR), Bates Dance Festival (Lewiston, ME), University of Montana (Missoula, MT), SUSHI Performing Arts (San Diego, CA), the Southern Theater (Minneapolis, MN), ODC Theater (San Francisco), Kyoto Arts Center (Kyoto, Japan), Next Moment Film Festival (Tokyo, Japan), UNAM Danza sin Fronteras (Mexico City, Mexico).

Amy teaches contemporary dance technique, funk, and choreography regularly at Velocity Dance Center, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Cornish College of the Arts, and with the Dance This program in Seattle. She is the lead teaching artist for STG's Young Choreographers Lab which she has helped to develop. She has taught and/or conducted residencies at the University of Washington, University of Idaho, Idaho State University, University of Montana, Texas Woman's University, University of Oregon, Lane Community College (Eugene, OR), Northwest Vista College (San Antonio, TX), and Dance New Amsterdam (NYC). Her work has been commissioned by Spectrum Dance Theater directed by Donald Byrd (05 and 08), Cornish Dance Theater, Moving Current (Tampa, FL), and Seattle Theatre Group in 2005 collaborating with Savion Glover and 2009 with locust.  

As a performer, she worked with the Pat Graney Co. (99-01), Scott/Powell Performance (97-04), and performed in Mark Haim's acclaimed "Goldberg Variations" (06). Amy was the lead singer of Zeke Keeble's band Marrow from 2003-2006. Amy also frequently collaborates with musician/comedian, Reggie Watts. She performed in his show "Disinformation" at the TBA Festival (Portland, OR), the Under the Radar Festival (New York, NY), the Andy Warhol Museum (Pittsburgh, PA), the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and ICA Boston. She choreographed for Reggie Watts's music video "Fu.. Sh.. Stack" released through Comedy Central and she has choreographed for commercials, most recently, XBox.

Amy has received funding from the Seattle Mayors Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs, the international DanceWEB scholarship (2000), the Mary Levine Fund, Artist Trust (GAP and Fellowship) , 4 Culture, the Bossak/Heilbron Charitable Foundation, the National Dance Project of the New England Foundation for the Arts, the National Performance Network, the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, and the Creative Capital Foundation. Amy has been awarded creative residencies at Bates Dance Festival (07), Headlands Center for the Arts (08), and the US/Japan Choreographers Exchange through Dance Theater Workshop and the Japan Society (09). Amy holds a BFA in dance from Cornish College of the Arts.  Amy was on the Stranger Genius Shortlist in 2004, is a USA Artist, and is currently the 2011 Choreographer in Residence at Velocity Dance Center in Seattle.