amanda Ling

Amanda Ling is a South Carolina dance artist and educator striving to create accessible movement experiences in the community. She is an Assistant Dance Professor and the Dance Program Chair at Columbia College. She is a choreographer and the Associate Director of the Power Company Collaborative. Her specialties lie within contemporary dance practice, improvisational methods, choreography, leadership, arts advocacy, and feminism. Amanda curated the Columbia Dance & Improvisation Festival from 2014 to 2018 and has previously taught dance at Coker University and Winthrop University. She has produced and performed in the Power Company Collaborative’s public art installations entitled Singing Wall for the 2019 Prague Quadrennial Formations exhibition in the Czech Republic. As well as, The Home Project for the 2016 ArtFields exhibition in Lake City, SC. Amanda has performed in dance installations with Eileen Stanley, Moving Body Dance Company, Sapphire Moon Dance Company, Annex Dance Company, Jerome Meadows Blank Page Poetry, and the Warp Trio. Her movement research interweaves dance and ritual with imagery, improvisation, and experimental storytelling. Amanda received an MFA in Dance from Arizona State University and a BFA in Dance Performance and Choreography from Columbia College, SC.