About
Amy Chavasse, choreographer, performer, educator, improviser, and Artistic Director of ChavasseDance&Performance is currently a Professor in the Department of Dance at the University of Michigan, located on the traditional territories of the Anishinaabe people of the Three Fires – the Ojibwe, Ottawa and Potawatomi. Upcoming projects include a drag / dance / music / storytelling work called afterlife plunder, with I Broke the Vase, an Athens, Greece based experimental music/ video duo, and Dancers in Flames- Expendable Bodies in Incendiary Times, with Luciana Acuña and Nola Sporn Smith.
Recent collaborations include Contacto Improvisación sobre el filo de la democracia: improvisando nuevos pasos de Sur a Norte, presented at the Dance Studies Association conference in Buenos Aires in August 2024. Post conference, she continued working with artists in a week-long residency with Sarah Konner, Marina Tampini and Cristina Turdo, culminating in a video and book project. Recent projects include curating and producing an evening of dance with guest artists from Hong Kong – Terry King Fai Tsang and Jay Peng Zhang called soul /over /encounter as part of the University of Michigan’s Art & Resistance Theme semester. She also created and performed a new solo, Death in Dreams. She performed with Luciana Acuña, Paty Solòrzano, Austin Selden and Nola Sporn Smith (dance artists from Brooklyn, Buenos Aires and Mexico City), in How to Stay in a Dream with the Compañía Nacional de Danza de Costa Rica in San José, Costa Rica.
