Bio

Amy Love Beasley (MFA Choreography, UNC Greensboro, BA Studio Art, College of Charleston) is a movement artist whose upbringing in the North Carolina mountains shaped her path toward embodied research, interdisciplinary practices, and practices in presence exploring interconnection. Beasley was fortunate to perform and study with artists and educators BJ Sullivan, Sean Sullivan, Gerri Houlihan, Niki Juralewicz, Jill Green, John Gamble, and Jan Van Dyke. Her formative training expanded in NYC with a dance home at Movement Research, which also influences the post-modern practices she teaches. Beasley’s work often explores intersections of movement, mindfulness, and visual art. She has presented at CAM Raleigh, the Gregg Museum, the North Carolina Dance Festival, the North Carolina Museum of Art, Art-o-Matic (DC), Triskellion’s Waxworks (Brooklyn), the Center for Performance Research (Brooklyn), and several universities. Beasley is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of Performing Arts & Technology at NC State University where she teaches in both dance and somatics classrooms and co-directs Terrain Dance Project, a site-specific dance company. She has recently presented research at NDEO, ISMETA, NOFOD, and ACDA and co-authored the article Pedagogy of Care in Pilates, published in the Journal of Dance Education.