ABOUT THE PRACTICE
​Amanda Krische is a dancer, choreographer, and movement coach creating dance for theater, film, music videos, social practice, and interdisciplinary research collaborations. She is also an herbalist, writer, and educator: the confluence of these many creative paths results in transformative movement experiences at the intersection of performance, music, ecology, healing, and embodiment. She is passionate about creating dance and coaching others to inhabit their most authentic embodiment: this work has brought her into coaching dancers, musicians, and actors. She is driven by the mission of bringing the joy of dance to all. Her practice considers movement as a translation device that helps to tell virtuosic stories while facilitating the migration of ideas, energies, exchanges, and hospitalities between bodies and disciplines. She has worked to bring dance into live and recorded music performances, theater, community centers, fashion campaigns, ritual, healing practices, and classrooms, to name just a few. This work is grounded in the philosophy that movement is not just choreography—it is the technology that animates every living being. It is a universal language that can move audiences towards feeling, understanding, wonder, and the rapture of being moved by a good story. It is the language of presence, the pulse of the living world made visible through the body.
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METHODOLOGY
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My personal performance practice is a devotion to understanding the body as a site of multitudinous intersections: of dialing in our witnessing of how we perceive ourselves, each other, and the world through the physicality of our fleshly forms. My research and practice is a method of tuning to states of social and interspecies consciousness that prioritize the embodiment of all beings: human and more-than-human, elemental, spiritual, etc. It is my belief that in more deeply studying encounters between bodies, and sharing this study with generous hospitality through performances, workshops, and creation processes, we can provoke a new way of living in the world that privileges care, tenderness, inquiry, curiosity, and belonging.
I also define myself as a collaborator: the metamorphic possibilities presented through sharing language and idea with others is one of my great passions; the weaving of multiple disciplines to serve the telling of a story and the building of a sanctuary spaces for community motivates every aspect of my work. My work is a hybrid of art, science, and traditional healing arts that fuses movement, ecological storytelling, ritual practice, scientific inquiry, and somatic research to spark spiritual and societal transformation. This work turns intellectual inquiry into embodied practice, generating spaces for community connection, problem solving, and awareness.
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At the very heart of my practice is the belief in art as an act of public service. Inspired by ideological ancestors such as Augusto Boal, Pina Bausch, Joseph Beuys, Fred Moten, I use the making of interdisciplinary dances and collaborations to query the social function of art. How can the studio, the laboratory, and the performance space be a site for collective action, healing, belonging, and care? How can this practice serve as a rehearsal for the world that we are constantly building in our daily lives and interactions? The materiality of the body allows for us to practice these questions in action.
Rooted in dance and stretching across disciplines— among them ecology, neuroscience, quantum physics, folk herbalism, oral tradition, psychology, and mythopoetics—my work reveals itself through performance ecosystems: dynamic, co-created environments where audience and performer wrestle with questions about themselves, the world, and each other. These ecosystems are grounded in years-long collaborations with scientists, philosophers, and artists across fields, particularly in ecological and neurological research. Together, we design experiments in performance that explore altered consciousness, time perception, and embodied cognition—redefining how we understand healing, memory, and belonging.
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Whether through evening-length works, immersive installations, long-form social practice, or embodied workshops, each offering is a living inquiry: a ritual experiment designed to ask urgent questions, cultivate emotional and somatic healing, and reimagine how we live with one another—and with the earth.
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INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATION & ECOLOGICAL STORYTELLING
At the heart of my practice is a deep commitment to long-term, cross-disciplinary collaboration. I view performance as a living archive—a research method that brings together voices from dance, music, science, ecology, and ritual. Not confined to one field or expression of entertainment, I am at home just as much in creating movement for a social community practice as I am creating movement for pop music artists, as I am at coaching actors for theatrical and film roles. My collaborators include neuroscientists, marine biologists, anthropologists, psychologists, quantum physicists, sculptors, and architects, among others. These dialogues have shaped a body of work that is both rigorously experimental and deeply relational, always in conversation with the natural world and our place within it.
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RITUAL & ANCESTRAL KNOWLEDGE
Trained in the earth-based, matrilineal ritual and herbal traditions of my Eastern European and Balkan ancestors, I carry forward these practices not as fixed traditions but as living, adaptive tools for contemporary transformation. Themes of devotion, altered consciousness, time, and healing inform both my ritual facilitation and my performance environments. Each offering is a site where the mythic and the physical meet to invite deep, embodied change both individually and collectively.
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