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Amanda Acorn
Amanda Acorn is a dance artist currently based in Tkaronto, Canada. Her practice includes somatic movement, improvisation, writing, and drawing as tools to explore the body as an empathetic and malleable system, wired for attunement. As a choreographer, she creates intimate, sensorial encounters and responsive environments for shared, embodied exchange. Her latest project, no place (2022), explores the body in dialogue with the material world through emergent, relational practice and an evolving construction of space and place. She graduated from the Canadian College of Performing Arts (2000) and the School of Toronto Dance Theatre's Professional Training Program (2008) and pursued independent studies in Vienna, Amsterdam, Berlin, and Genoa, Italy. Her solo and group works have included presentations and commissions shared in diverse venues in Toronto including Toronto Dance Theatre, Videofag, The Citadel, Luminato Festival, among others, and across Canada at the Festival TransAmériques in Montréal, Workers Arts Heritage Centre in Hamilton, Festival of New Dance in St John’s, Dancer’s Studio West in Calgary, Push Festival and Gold Saucer Studio in Vancouver. She is furthering her study of the dialogue between bodies as an M.A. candidate at York University and the practice of Gestalt Psychotherapy through the Gestalt Institute of Toronto.