About
Amy O’Neal is a performer, choreographer, dance educator, the creator of Amyo/tinyrage, and the co-director of locust (music/dance/video) with musician/composer Zeke Keeble, based in Seattle WA USA. Since 2000, locust has produced 6 evening length works, several shorter works and dance videos, and have been 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), and Next Moment Film Festival (Tokyo, Japan).
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 (05 and 09).
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” which will be 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, the National Performance Network, 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 Exchange through Dance Theater Workshop and the Japan Society (09). Amy holds a BFA in dance from Cornish College of the Arts.
Here is an artist profile made for the Seattle Channel in 2008:
About AmyO/tinyrage
After a decade of successful collaboration with locust, Amy O decided to create a platform for projects not related to locust. Her first project under this name,”too” ,premiered at the TBA Festival in Portland Or September 10-12 2009 (read more about it on the projects page). Amy O will premiere her next project “In the Fray” at the Northwest New Works Festival at On the Boards in Seattle, June 5-6 2010.
To contact Amyo/tinyrage: amyo@tinyrage.com
For locust: locustsucka.com / amy@locustsucka.com