Amanda Acorn is a dance artist, researcher and choreographer based in Tkaronto, Canada, the traditional territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples. Her practice includes improvisation, somatic movement, writing and drawing as tools to explore the body as an empathetic and malleable system, wired for attunement. As a choreographer, she creates intimate, sensorial encounters and responsive environments for shared embodied exchange. Her work builds spaces for care through the intersections of her art practice and her work as a movement guide. As a dancer, she performed in and collaborated on projects as a company dancer with Dancemakers (2011-2016) and independently with choreographers such as Dana Michel (QC), Isabel Lewis (DE), Lemi Ponifasio (NZ), Andrea Spaziani (CA) and Brendan Fernandez (CA) among others. Her latest project, no place (2022), explores the body in dialogue with the material world through emergent, relational practice and an evolving construction of space and place. Her solo and group works have included presentations and commissions shared in diverse venues in Toronto including Toronto Dance Theatre, Videofag, The Citadel, Luminato Festival, The Music Gallery among others and across Canada at Festival TransAmeriques in Montreal, Workers Arts Heritage Centre in Hamilton, Dancer’s Studio West in Calgary, Push Festival in Vancouver, Festival of New Dance in St. John’s, and Gold Saucer Studio in Vancouver. She graduated from the Canadian College of Performing Arts (2000) and the Dance Arts Institute’s Professional Training Program (formerly School of Toronto Dance Theatre) (2008), and pursued independent studies in Amsterdam, Berlin, Vienna and Genoa, Italy. She holds an MA from York University (2023).