Faculty Profile for Amanda Rose Evans McCorkle

Biography Section

Biography and Education

Amanda McCorkle is an award-winning choreographer, performer and teacher from Austin, Texas. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Dance from Texas State University, and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Dance from Texas Woman’s University.

Amanda has performed the works of talented choreographers such as: Bebe Miller, Erick Hawkins, Maureen Freehill, Sarah Gamblin, Andrea Ariel, Sally Jacques, Ellen Bartel, and Rosemary Candelario. In 2006 she became a founding member of the Shay Ishii Dance Company, and now serves as the Executive Assistant Director of their board. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally at locations such as the 92nd Street Y in New York City, England, Scotland, France, Mexico, Trinidad, India, Sweden, Italy, and Brazil, the Austin Fringe Festival, the American Dance Festival, Oklahoma, Ohio, Colorado, and many more.

She is currently a Lecturer in the Dance Division at Texas State University, and is the Head of the Bachelors of Arts program in Dance. Ms. McCorkle is the Producing Director of the International Somatic Child Experiential Practitioner Training program. This program offers trainings across the U.S. and Brazil.

Currently, Amanda’s research interests are centered around teaching movement integration from a somatic perspective. She is committed to celebrating the value and beauty of every person, and to facilitating movers in their experiential journey through the body.