BIOGRAPHY
Amelia enjoyed 25 years of dancing, choreographing, and performing in Seattle, throughout the US, and internationally. Based now in northern Michigan, her creative focus is on facilitating embodied experience and exploring other media.
Amelia’s choreographic style was distinct in its technique and voice. As an artist, her work was intuitive. Guided by an enlivened practice of deep listening to the body, psyche, & soul; performed in an intimate and idiosyncratic way; moving through darkness, humor, beauty, and awkwardness. For Amelia, performance was direct access to flow and into a multitude of intelligences; an opportunity to witness, transmute and redirect energy. Dancing and improvising is a direct way to be present, curious, and embodied.
Her body of work was focused on solo choreography, improvisation, and collaboration. Foot In Mouth was comprised of Amelia, Alice de Muizon, Composers Ivory Smith and Eryn Young. Other collaborations include composers Sam Mickens, Paul Matthew Moore, Stasis, and video by Joe Moore.
Amelia collaborated with and performed for seminal Choreographer Deborah Hay. She also performed for the innovative Pat Graney Company. Other collaborations include works with Gaelen Hanson and Peggy Piacenza. From 2017-22 Amelia performed in Peggy Piacenza’s The Event, sweet rotten sweet, The Forever Project.
Amelia’s rich history also includes dancing and creating with Jessica Jobaris, Timothy White Eagle, Beth Graczyk, Corrie Befort, Angelina Baldoz, Sheri Cohen, Vaness DeWolf, Jeff Huston, Aaron Shwartzman, Tonya Lockyer & Sean Ryan, Janice Findley, Joe Moore, The Buttrock Suites, Michelle Boule, Jeanine Durning, Juliet Mapp, Mary Simpson, Fionn Meade, KT Niehoff, and with many talented, dedicated artists in past ensembles and improvisational evenings.
Dance CV
FYI This page is still in the Re-making ….
more photos and proper credit coming soon.
Photos: Amelia Reeber, Sheri Cohen, Jazzy Photo, Bran Meade, Tim Summers, Rino Pizzi, Charles Peterson.
Choreographers: Amelia Reeber, Foot In Mouth, Sheri Cohen, Jessica Jobaris & General Magic, Deborah Hay Dance Company, Pat Graney Company
PRESS QUOTES
“She was, simply put, a knockout performer, and subtle, funny, sly, regal, carefree, impetuous, testy, and generally absent of any visible ego when she danced.” Deborah Hay, Choreographer, Author ‘Using The Sky, A Dance’
Frank Hayes
“…marvelous.. rare casting demand: solo dancer with bear. The opening scene alone, with Reeber landing ashore in a small rowboat to the ambient sound of Stasis, is worth catching if nothing else” Willamette Weekly
This is a Forgery
“Watching Seattle performer Amelia Reeber’s solo piece, “this is a forgery,” is to be engaged on the purely visual and sensual level; she has a lovely presence and her own fascinatingly idiosyncratic movement style. At the same time, it’s to be caught up in puzzles, spiritual quests, the play of puns and images, and the joys of the purely comic. She draws the viewer, one sly step at a time, into her own richly conceived world….She dances, moving alone, taking the space with her own authenticity. Video can sometimes dwarf or upstage a dancer. Reeber is not about to let that happen.”
Mary Murfin Bayley, Special to the Seattle Times
“Amelia Reeber is one of Seattle’s shining modern dance stars—an artist who combines serious choreography cred with a wicked sense of humor and mad dance skills—yet she remains humble!”
Brangien Davis, Seattle Magazine
“Amelia Reeber has an impeccable alternative dance résumé, performing with Deborah Hay and Pat Graney, co-founding Foot in Mouth, and continuing to be a gifted improviser and soloist. But what you don’t really expect from that serious background is how funny she can be……She’s the leading contender for my non sequitur dance prize of 2010.”
Sandra Kurtz, Seattle Weekly
“Amelia Reeber is a master of timing…”
Paige Richmond, Seattle Weekly
“Reeber’s movement was grounded, piercing and deliberate just like her set”
Catherine Cabeen, Choreographer/Educator
“…delivered a rich and interesting multimedia performance…A clever and brilliant bit of choreography”
Jeremy M Barker, Seattlest
“As a choreographer Amelia Reeber continually offers original dance ideas and sharply animated movements that angle forth form places of personal revelation. She pulls audiences to the edge of uncertainty before leading them into areas of self-discovery. As a dancer she combines finely honed technical skills with unique twists that can be ironic and comic, yet are always wryly intelligent.”
Michael Meade, Author ‘The World Behind the World’
of Foot in Mouth
“The piece is fairly short, but it packs a lot of wit, virtuosity, and some startling intimacy into that brief span.” Bret Fetzer, The Stranger