BIO

Ms. Amy Michelle Wilkinson began her professional performance career with the Open Door Theater in Boulder, Colorado after graduating from the University of Iowa where she double majored in Dance and Communications. She has performed with numerous Chicago companies including Luna Negra Dance Theatre, Same Planet Different World, and Thodos Dance Chicago, for whom she also served as the educational outreach coordinator and wrote, directed, and produced a physics-based touring performance, The Science of Motion - The Art of Dance.  Ms. Wilkinson has choreographed many musicals including The Music Man, Oliver!, and Guys and Dolls, and has set original works on contemporary companies CDI/Concert Dance Inc., Thodos Dance, Inaside Dance Company, Impetus Dance Theater, and Instruments of Movement among others. She has choreographed Hansel and Gretel, Dido and Aeneas, and The Cunning Little Vixen for DePaul Opera Theater and her work has been performed at local, national, and international venues including the Ravinia Music Festival’s Rising Stars Concert Series, Dance Chicago, Nanjing China Normal University, and The Istanbul Festival of Music and Dance. Ms. Wilkinson is currently an artistic associate with CDI/Concert Dance Inc., where she has collaborated on several commissions including Lincoln Letters, and Salon de Mexico; and she played a featured role in the Emmy nominated performance of Billy Sunday, Ruth Page’s classic ballet re-envisioned by Venetia Stifler. Ms. Wilkinson graduated with a M.Ed. in Higher Education from Loyola University Chicago and she is also the Artistic Director of the After School Matters Dance Ensemble, a summer apprenticeship program that provides arts training for Chicago Public High School students.

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