Faculty Profiles

Amanda McCorkle, MFA, 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. She is also a Registered Somatic Dance Educator with a specialty in embodied anatomy.

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 92^nd Street Y in New York City, England, Scotland, France, Mexico, Trinidad, India, Sweden, Italy, and Brazil, the Austin Fringe Festival, the American College Dance Association, Oklahoma, Ohio, Colorado, and many more. She is currently an Associate Professor of Practice in the Dance Division at Texas State University, and is the Head of the Bachelors of Fine Arts in Dance Studies program.

Ms. McCorkle is the recipient of the 2024 Presidential Award of Excellence in Service and is honored to be named the 2025 University Dance Educator of the Year by the Texas Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance where she serves as Aesthetics Chair. 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.