About

Amanda De Oliveira is a Brazilian-American dance artist, educator and choreographer.

Amanda was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil where her mother initially enrolled her in ballet classes because she would only walk on her tippy toes until the age of three. At 11, Amanda moved to the US on her own after being accepted to the School of American Ballet in NYC. There she performed with the New York City Ballet in several productions including The Nutcracker, A Midsummer’s Night Dream, Swan Lake, Circus Polka, Harlequinade and Sleeping Beauty. Two years later, she transferred to American Ballet Theatre’s Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School, training on a full merit scholarship, and later beginning her professional career at ABT II. In addition to those schools, Amanda has trained with the late and beloved Yuri Grigoriev (Bolshoi Ballet and Stanislavsky), Fabrice Herrault (Paris Opera Ballet) and her longtime coaches and mentors Irina Dvorovenko and Maxim Beloserkovsky (American Ballet Theatre). 

In 2011, Amanda joined American Ballet Theatre’s Studio Company, performing in events including The Met Gala at Lincoln Center, the 50th anniversary JFK’s Inauguration at The Kennedy Center, and across Italy, Switzerland, Spain and the UK. During her time with ABT, she was also a recipient of the Marjorie Isaacs Dancer Award. After leaving the company, Amanda freelanced in London for a year, dancing in a piece commissioned by the British Arts Council and choreographed by The Royal Ballet’s Ludovico Ondiviela. She premiered the piece in London’s Covent Garden and as the closing act at the Spring Arts Festival in Beirut. Amanda has also appeared as a guest artist both nationally and internationally. Her repertoire includes works by Petipa, Kevin McKenzie, George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Antony Tudor, Jessica Lang, Azure Barton among others.

As a choreographer, she has created nine original works for Westchester Ballet Company. She has also worked in theatre dance, co-devising, choreographing and performing in Jen Pitt’s original production of Pau Brasil and serving as dance choreographer for Pitt’s adaptations of “Big Love.” Both were performed at Columbia University as part of the MFA in theatre directing thesis program. In the late summer of 2020, Amanda co-directed, produced, choreographed and performed in her first experimental short film, “Inseparable.”

As an educator, Amanda is an American Ballet Theatre curriculum certified teacher. She has taught internationally in Brazil, Panama (alongside her mentors Irina Dvorovenko and Maxim Beloserkovsky), and across the United States. She was on faculty at the Logrea Dance Academy, Greenwich Conservatory of Classical Ballet, Pure Movenment and Dance, Ace Dance Project and Align Ballet Method. She has taught master classes for both Yale University and Stanford University respective ballet companies. Currently she is on faculty at Dmitri Kulev Classical Ballet Academy and Burbank Dance Academy.