Amy Kubat

This is Amy’s first year as Artistic Director for TwoPoint4 Dance Theater. She is bringing with her twenty years of dance education, performance, study and theory. Although she began her traditional education in dance at Dean College in Massachusetts, Amy has had an affinity for movement of all kinds, dance related or simply athletic based, since she was a child, and choosing dance as a formal education was a space to experiment with all kinds of movements and lean into her passions for the human body. Taking weekend trips to NYC, and taking monthly flights back to LA, Amy submerged herself in the dance culture on both coasts, absorbing many styles and attitudes toward dance. After spending three years on the East Coast, she graduated with her A.A. in dance, moved back to California, signed with Trio Talent Agency in LA, and began teaching dance in high schools in Southern California. Although being behind the scenes in the commercial dance world was fascinating, it was more helpful for Amy’s journey to learn what she does not want in a dance career. Being led by superficiality, type casting, playing politics, smiling and being silent was not an aspect of the dance world that Amy wanted to humor. So, when she decided to enroll in Cal State Fullerton’s dance program it was going to be for a deeper understanding of what dance could be and could feel like. She took anatomy courses in and out of college, and emphasized in physiology, so she can not just learn dance vocabulary, but how the body dances. Along with her formal higher education in Modern/Contemporary dance and Ballet, Amy experienced many commercial styles including Jazz, Acrobatics, HipHop, Ballroom and Aerial dance, as well as different modalities of fitness such as pole dance, movement therapies, yoga, pilates, stretch and conditioning practices and Functional Range Conditioning. By the time she enrolled for her Masters of Fine Arts Degree at Saint Mary’s College of California, she had begun work inside various cultural dance forms of Nigeria, Ghana, China, Southeast Asia, Polynesia, India, Mexico, and Brazil. During her Masters work, Amy had begun development on her ideas on how dance connects humans more to themselves as well as others. It was clear, by experiencing so many different forms of dance, that there are more similarities than differences, and leaning into what connects all styles of dance. In her M.F.A. studies, she focused on equity cueing, individual efficacy development, emotional expression through the body, and researched the three brains of the body for her thesis project. Amy has learned to focus on the foundations of movement of the body in her teaching. Taking care of the whole person, including developing instincts, emotional intelligence, support for brain function, nutrition, as well as the traditional skeleto-muscular training. Amy leads with curiosity and connection in her dancing, so the audience and the dancer can have a human experience of connection to themselves. Amy is certified in Acrobatic Arts, Functional Range Conditioning and has begun a certification in the somatic practice BodyMind Dancing.