Instructor Bio

Amy Schofield

Part-Time Instructor in the Department of Performing Arts – Dance

Education

• B.F.A., dance, University of the Arts
• M.F.A., dance, University of New Mexico
• Ph.D. candidate, flamenco dance in the diaspora, The Ohio State University

About

Amy Schofield is a U.S.-American flamenco dancer, scholar, educator, and choreographer. She is a doctoral candidate at The Ohio State University where her research explores flamenco dance in the diaspora. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance from the University of the Arts and a Masters of Fine Arts in Dance from the University of New Mexico. Amy has studied flamenco baile and cante at the Fundación de Arte Flamenco de Cristina Heeren in Seville and the Centro de Arte Flamenco y Danza Española Amor de Dios in Madrid, as well as in numerous workshops in Spain and the US. Her teaching credits include instructor and guest lecturer positions at OSU, UNM, and Temple University, community and private lessons for all ages, and arts education residencies for kindergarten through high school in Philadelphia, New York, and North Carolina as a teaching artist with NYC-based Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana. She currently teaches and performs with U Will Dance Studio and Caña Flamenca in central Ohio under the direction of Griset Damas Roche. Most recently, Amy created the archive at the National Institute of Flamenco in Albuquerque, NM as a Dance/USA Archiving and Preservation Fellow.