Meet Kiira Benzing and Reggie Watts, lead artists of Runnin', playing in New Frontier Exhibitions at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. https://www.sundance.org/projects/runnin

Amy O’Neal is a versatile dancer, performer, choreographer, and dance educator with one foot firmly planted in Hip Hop and Street Dance culture and the other in Contemporary dance and performance.  She is passionate about the intersection of these worlds and how they connect energetically and philosophically, while honoring their cultural differences.  Since 2000, she has taught and performed throughout the US, Japan, Italy, and Mexico, and she has choreographed for stage, commercials, rock shows, galleries, dance films and music videos. Her work is an amalgam of her diverse movement and life experiences presenting social commentary with dark humor and heavy beats. Amy’s work has been presented by On the Boards (Seattle, WA), PICA TBA Festival, (Portland, OR), Joyce Soho (New York, NY), Jacob’s Pillow Inside/Out (Becket, MA), Myrna Loy Center (Helena, MT), ODC (San Francisco, CA), Southern Theater (Minneapolis, MN), Project Motion (Memphis, TN), SUSHI (San Diego, CA), Off Center Festival (Costa Mesa, CA), Spoleto Festival USA (Charelston, SC), University of Hawaii (Hilo, HI), Maui Cultural Center (Kahului, HI), Kahilu Theater (Waimea, HI), Okinawa Prefectural Museum (Okinawa, Japan), Northwest Film Forum (Seattle, WA), RADAR: Exchanges in Dance Film Frequencies (Vancouver, BC), Next Moment Film Festival (Tokyo, Japan), Kyoto Art Center (Kyoto, Japan), Festival Danza Sin Frontreras UNAM (Mexico City, Mexico), ProDanza Italia (Castigliencello, Italy), San Souci Film Festival (Boulder, CO), and International Screendance Festival at ADF (Durham, NC) She co-teaches House dance and co-hosts House Open Sessions with dance artist Dani Tirrell at The Beacon: Massive Monkees studio in Seattle. She teaches dance composition and improvisation for Seattle Theater Group’s “Dance This” program. She spent seven years developing and teaching for The Young Choreographer’s Lab and the Seattle Youth Dance Collective. She taught weekly Contemporary dance and Street Dance Styles classes at Velocity Dance Center in Seattle for fifteen years. She has worked extensively with musician/comedian Reggie Watts since 2002 both on stage and screen. She choreographed his Comedy Central-produced “Fuck, Shit, Stack” video and toured nationally in his show “Disinformation”.  From 2000-2010, she was co-director of locust (music/dance/video) creating six evening length works and several shorter works. Amy has been an artist in residence at Bates Dance Festival, Headlands Center for the Arts, the US/Japan Choreographer’s Exchange, and Velocity Dance Center.  She is a Creative Capital, National Performance Network, National Dance Project, Mid Atlantic Arts, Foundation for Contemporary Art, and James W. Ray Project Venture Artist Trust Grantee. She is a two-time Artist Trust Fellow, DanceWEB Scholar, and two-time Stranger Genius Awards nominee. Her dance writing has been published in Dance Magazine, City Arts Magazine, and ArtDish Forum.  Amy is based in Seattle, WA and was awarded the first Distinguished Alumni Award from Cornish College of the Arts.

RAWdance in rehearsal with Amy O'Neal for Double Exposure. World premiere July 28-31, 2016 at ODC Theater, San Francisco.

Seattle dancers/choreographers Ellie Sandstrom and Amy O'Neal have created a unique and enduring collaborative partnership.

See the official music video for "Iridescent Asteroid Mists" here: https://vimeo.com/61490083 www.VoxMod.com www.UnsoundAmerica.com Join Vox Mod (Scot Porter), graphic designer and video artist Christian Peterson, dancer and choreographer Amy O'Neal, experimental projectionist Ben Van Citters, and photographer/videographer Brad Curran as they work to complete a music video for "Iridescent Asteroid Mists," the first single from Vox Mod's album "SYN-ÆSTHETIC."

Excerpt from the Seattle Channel In Studio Profile on Amy O'Neal | producer/editor - Patricia O'Brien | DP - Gabriel Miller | sound design - Ollie Glatzer | PA - Joseph Walker | Music Zeke Keeble Amy O'Neal is a performer, choreographer, teacher and the co-director (along with Zeke Keeble) of locust (music/dance/video company) based in Seattle and touring nationally.