Amanda T.'s profile
www.poeticxpressions.webs.com- The School- Poetic xpressions School for the Creative Arts
www.poeticxpressionsdancecompany.webstarts.com- The Company- Poetic Xpressions Dance Company
www.amandafair.webs.com- my personal web site- monthly updates, photos etc...
Dance and Poetry Bios.-
Dance Bio.-
Ms. Fair is a full time artist who has been both dancing and writing and performing poetry for over twenty years. She is a graduate of The Baltimore School for the Arts and of The University of the Arts in Philadelphia where she received her BFA in Ballet Performance. She was given the opportunity to study Ballet, on internship, at The Dance Theatre of Harlem for her senior year at UARTS and has worked with choreographers such as Milton Myers, Andrew Papp, Reginald Cole and Ronen Koresh. She has taught Ballet and Modern Dance in numerous dance programs and schools including The University of The Arts summer intensive, Baltimore Ballet, The Morton Street Dance Center and The Dance Institute of Washington. She is currently on staff at Rayn Fall Dance Studio, Inertia Performing Arts and is part of the faculty at The Community College of Baltimore County at the Essex and Catonsville campuses. Amanda has performed in many independent projects as well as with a number of companies that include the Dishibem Contemporary Dance Group, Full Circle Dance Company, Shange Dance Productions and The Washington Reflections Dance Company, and is founder and director of Poetic Xpressions Dance Company. PXDC was founded in October of 2007 and the company performed in thier first full length concert PXDC: The Awakening in June 2009 to packed audiences at Baltimore Theatre Project. Her choreography has been performed at theaters such as The Baltimore Museum of Art, The Hippodrome, Baltimore Theatre Project and The Kennedy Center. Her work can be seen on Full Circle Dance Company, Shange Dance Productions, Syngery, and Poetic Xpressions Dance Company. She is currently performing with PXDC, S.O.U.L. Theatre Productions, and VTDance, which is under the direction of Vincent Thomas. Amanda is also a private dance coach for many students in the state of Maryland. Her private lesson students have been accepted in to many high school dance programs and performing arts colleges and universities that include George Mason University, The Alvin Aiely independent study program, The Baltimore School for the Arts, The University of the Arts, Fordham University and Carver Center for the Arts to name a few. Ms. Fair is very serious and passionate about her work when performing, teaching, coaching or choreographing and is most thankful for her parents, Nancy and Willie Fair, former dance instructors Deborah Black, Norma Pera, Arthur Mitchell, Lavine Nadu and Milton Myers, and believes in every last one of her students, both young and old.
Poetry Bio.-
Amanda started both dancing and writing at the age of seven. She began with short stories and was chosen to participate and compete in dramatic readings in Elementary school where she discovered the art of performing her words onstage. She then turned to poetry and began to perform her work at school events, performances and talent shows. At the age of 16, while working at North Star Book Store in Security Mall she was given the opportunity to meet and speak with poet Nikki Giovanni and to hear her perform her work at a book signing there. Having been inspired, and forced by her mother and boss Bob Kurr , that same year she brought in her poetry and discovered her first open mic held weekly there at the store hosted by Mel Brooks,who was then a member of Pozativ Chainge. Amanda joined the performing poetry group Pozativ Chainge (Founder Bleek) along with members Bleek, Mel Brooks, Lyrical and Keshia Lambert. Pozative Chainge hosted for many open mic venues and performed in the Maryland/ DC area at different open mics, universities and other poetry events. At the age of 17 Amanda hosted a weekly open mic set called Teen Verse at Sibanye's Bookstore for Pozativ Chainge and published her first book entitled To All Who Can Relate. Since then she has been published in an anthology for The Great Blacks in Wax Museum, has had the honor to write for and perform live for Kwaisi Mfume at the presenting and unvailng of his wax figure, and has published two additional books, Revealed and Unspoken Words. Her poetry is both raw and honest. She is currently getting ready to release her third book, Inner Strugglings and New Begginnings: The Re-Birth, in 2010. She also attended the People's Poetry Awards where Revealed won Best Poetry Book in 2006 and during this time she was also able to get her book placed in to A Good Book BookStore for sale in Woodlawn, and online at stores such as Target, Barnes and Nobles, and Borders. Shortly after Amanda released her first spoken word CD, JOURNEY and had an amazing line up of other artists to perform with her at the CD realease that was hosted by poet Da Truth.Those poets included D, Chase, Chuck the Mad Ox, Da Truth, Adar Ayira and Sista Tracy with a performance by Poetic Xpressions Dance Company. Amanda has featured at many pf Baltimore's favorite spots including Notre Masion, Raw Poetry, Organic Soul, Art Of Coversation, Baltimore Book Festival, and Barnes and Nobles in DC and Maryland to name a few.She decided in 2007 to combine her love for both dance and poetry and founded Poetic Xpressions Dance Company to offer new opportunites to other professional dancers and poets. She contiues to do book readings and to perform as a spoken word artist in the Maryland, DC, and Philly areas and is inspired by the ups and downs of everyday life, the power of the pen, and other artists on the scene today such as Gary Logan, Ben Logan, Nikki Giovanni, Wanda Robinson aka Laini Mataka, Maya A, and Slangston Hughes.
www.poeticxpressionsdancecompany.webstarts.com- The Company- Poetic Xpressions Dance Company
www.amandafair.webs.com- my personal web site- monthly updates, photos etc...
Dance and Poetry Bios.-
Dance Bio.-
Ms. Fair is a full time artist who has been both dancing and writing and performing poetry for over twenty years. She is a graduate of The Baltimore School for the Arts and of The University of the Arts in Philadelphia where she received her BFA in Ballet Performance. She was given the opportunity to study Ballet, on internship, at The Dance Theatre of Harlem for her senior year at UARTS and has worked with choreographers such as Milton Myers, Andrew Papp, Reginald Cole and Ronen Koresh. She has taught Ballet and Modern Dance in numerous dance programs and schools including The University of The Arts summer intensive, Baltimore Ballet, The Morton Street Dance Center and The Dance Institute of Washington. She is currently on staff at Rayn Fall Dance Studio, Inertia Performing Arts and is part of the faculty at The Community College of Baltimore County at the Essex and Catonsville campuses. Amanda has performed in many independent projects as well as with a number of companies that include the Dishibem Contemporary Dance Group, Full Circle Dance Company, Shange Dance Productions and The Washington Reflections Dance Company, and is founder and director of Poetic Xpressions Dance Company. PXDC was founded in October of 2007 and the company performed in thier first full length concert PXDC: The Awakening in June 2009 to packed audiences at Baltimore Theatre Project. Her choreography has been performed at theaters such as The Baltimore Museum of Art, The Hippodrome, Baltimore Theatre Project and The Kennedy Center. Her work can be seen on Full Circle Dance Company, Shange Dance Productions, Syngery, and Poetic Xpressions Dance Company. She is currently performing with PXDC, S.O.U.L. Theatre Productions, and VTDance, which is under the direction of Vincent Thomas. Amanda is also a private dance coach for many students in the state of Maryland. Her private lesson students have been accepted in to many high school dance programs and performing arts colleges and universities that include George Mason University, The Alvin Aiely independent study program, The Baltimore School for the Arts, The University of the Arts, Fordham University and Carver Center for the Arts to name a few. Ms. Fair is very serious and passionate about her work when performing, teaching, coaching or choreographing and is most thankful for her parents, Nancy and Willie Fair, former dance instructors Deborah Black, Norma Pera, Arthur Mitchell, Lavine Nadu and Milton Myers, and believes in every last one of her students, both young and old.
Poetry Bio.-
Amanda started both dancing and writing at the age of seven. She began with short stories and was chosen to participate and compete in dramatic readings in Elementary school where she discovered the art of performing her words onstage. She then turned to poetry and began to perform her work at school events, performances and talent shows. At the age of 16, while working at North Star Book Store in Security Mall she was given the opportunity to meet and speak with poet Nikki Giovanni and to hear her perform her work at a book signing there. Having been inspired, and forced by her mother and boss Bob Kurr , that same year she brought in her poetry and discovered her first open mic held weekly there at the store hosted by Mel Brooks,who was then a member of Pozativ Chainge. Amanda joined the performing poetry group Pozativ Chainge (Founder Bleek) along with members Bleek, Mel Brooks, Lyrical and Keshia Lambert. Pozative Chainge hosted for many open mic venues and performed in the Maryland/ DC area at different open mics, universities and other poetry events. At the age of 17 Amanda hosted a weekly open mic set called Teen Verse at Sibanye's Bookstore for Pozativ Chainge and published her first book entitled To All Who Can Relate. Since then she has been published in an anthology for The Great Blacks in Wax Museum, has had the honor to write for and perform live for Kwaisi Mfume at the presenting and unvailng of his wax figure, and has published two additional books, Revealed and Unspoken Words. Her poetry is both raw and honest. She is currently getting ready to release her third book, Inner Strugglings and New Begginnings: The Re-Birth, in 2010. She also attended the People's Poetry Awards where Revealed won Best Poetry Book in 2006 and during this time she was also able to get her book placed in to A Good Book BookStore for sale in Woodlawn, and online at stores such as Target, Barnes and Nobles, and Borders. Shortly after Amanda released her first spoken word CD, JOURNEY and had an amazing line up of other artists to perform with her at the CD realease that was hosted by poet Da Truth.Those poets included D, Chase, Chuck the Mad Ox, Da Truth, Adar Ayira and Sista Tracy with a performance by Poetic Xpressions Dance Company. Amanda has featured at many pf Baltimore's favorite spots including Notre Masion, Raw Poetry, Organic Soul, Art Of Coversation, Baltimore Book Festival, and Barnes and Nobles in DC and Maryland to name a few.She decided in 2007 to combine her love for both dance and poetry and founded Poetic Xpressions Dance Company to offer new opportunites to other professional dancers and poets. She contiues to do book readings and to perform as a spoken word artist in the Maryland, DC, and Philly areas and is inspired by the ups and downs of everyday life, the power of the pen, and other artists on the scene today such as Gary Logan, Ben Logan, Nikki Giovanni, Wanda Robinson aka Laini Mataka, Maya A, and Slangston Hughes.
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