DANCER,
EDUCATOR,
CHOREOGRAPHER

I practice testing the body’s physical ability and instinctual knowledge of solving choreographic equations. The results in athletic, quirky, and engaging work.

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GET TO KNOW AMBER DANIELS

honesty, vulnerability, and ownership

My work holds honesty, vulnerability, and ownership. I am a dance artist who focuses her movement research on the unpredictable nature of improvisational play and the structural familiarity of narrative movement. I investigate narrative through historical research. Utilizing the art of film, visual production, theatre, and musical compositions, I create a collage of multiple viewpoints within a movement sketch. In the moments I find the work calls for the storyline; I am ignited by the smaller intricacies of gestural meaning.
Once I create rules that make room for mistakes, observations, and elaborations to be made, I am charged with excitement to test the boundaries of the body, mind, and spirit.

I am a dance educator that believes effort and curiosity drive learning within the classroom. I acknowledge early assumptions of what exactly dance is and tackle these thoughts with discussions of historical content, diversity, and anatomical knowledge of the possibilities within movement. A willingness to try is key, mistakes are welcomed, and play is endorsed.

MY Teaching STATEMENT

Collection of Recent Work

Performance

Choreography

teaching

A creator, mover, and educator. My love of community is a pillar within my artistry.

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What People Are Saying

Testimonials from past clients, colleagues, and professors that I've had the pleasure to work with on various projects.

"AMBER IS GREAT AND I WILL MISS THIS CLASS SO MUCH. I felt she believed in my and everyone's dancing abilities and also our ability to improve. Every body is a ballet body. Heck yes."

- A Student from Introduction to Ballet
University of Maryland at College Park

"Professor Daniels is an extremely helpful and talented teacher! She always helped out when I needed something and she guided me to more dance opportunities within the company. Alongside this she always made me excited to come to class and learn more."

- A Student from Introduction to Ballet
University of Maryland at College Park

"Amber Daniels, choreographer of this production, reveals strength in her complex numbers. Paying homage to Jerome Robbins' original choreography from the film version of WEST SIDE, Amber's choreography is nostalgic and downright fun."

- Review of West Side Story: Broadway World Jacksonville

"Prof. Daniels was extremely kind and accommodating, and treated all students' ideas and thoughts with respect. I appreciated how she allowed for people to express their opinions and didn't forced people to do things they were uncomfortable with."

- A Student from Introduction to Ballet
University of Maryland at College Park