Amy Seiwert

Amy Seiwert worked with her mentor Michael Smuin for eight of her nine years as a dancer with Smuin Ballet and is also Smuin’s past Choreographer-in-Residence. San Francisco Guardian wrote, “She quite possibly is the Bay Area’s most original dance thinker.” Named one of “25 to Watch” by Dance Magazine, her first full evening of choreography was listed one of the “Top 10” dance events of 2007 by the San Francisco Chronicle. Other awards include a Bay Area Isadora Duncan Dance Award, or “IZZIE” for Outstanding Choreography and a “Goldie” from the San Francisco Bay Guardian. Seiwert’s choreographic works have been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, The Kenneth Rainin Foundation, ODC Theater, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and The Joyce Theater. Her work is in the repertory of Washington, Atlanta, Oakland, Sacramento, Colorado, Louisville, Cincinnati, Carolina, Oklahoma City, Dayton, Milwaukee, and American Repertory Ballets, as well as Smuin, BalletMet, AXIS Dance, Robert Moses’ KIN, and Ballet Austin. From July 2018-2020, Seiwert was Artistic Director of Sacramento Ballet.