Amber Spivey

Amber Spivey, a Delaware-based performing artist, story-teller, educator, and creative entrepreneur.  She studied dance at Long Island University Brooklyn Campus in NYC. As a business owner, Spivey’s company seeks to implement programming using dance as a vehicle for community members to engage creatively, cultivate life skills, achieve fitness goals and experience the holistic benefits of the art form. Deeply aware of her ability to empower and provoke curiosity in people, Spivey uses social and cultural issues as stimuli for creating work that speaks to the adversity and resilience of the human experience. Her choreography is a fusion of contemporary, balletic lines, modern, hip hop influences, African, and her personal style accentuating spinal fluidity. She has served as a presenter for dance educators at Delaware State Arts Day (2023) and as a guest teaching artist at Dover High School’s Dance Program, Outbreak Dance Company, and University of Delaware’s Theater and Dance Program. She has trained with several notable companies and artists including The Martha Graham School, The Ailey School, Earl Mosely, Kim Jones, Shavon Norris, PILOBOLUS, and Philadanco! The Philadelphia Dance Company where she danced as a soloist with the apprentice company (2010-2015).

Spivey has received notable grants and a fellowship from Delaware Division of the Arts that have supported her professional development, research, and artistic practices. Spivey continues to work as an educator and performing artist, while delving deeper into activism through choreography these days. Her work as an educator, performing artist, life coach, and community engagement advocate directly informs her pedagogical practices and the value she creates for others.  Spivey is an educator of the Lester Horton technique by way of Master teacher Ana Marie Forsythe at the Ailey School and a certified (level 1) teacher for Progressing Ballet Technique. She is a board member for Delaware Dance Education Organization and serves on the faculty at Wilmington Ballet Academy of the Dance where she teaches modern and ballet. As the Creative Director of I AM ART N MOTION, LLC. a performing arts agency and inspirational brand, Spivey has contracted dance artists to perform selections for Winterthur Museum, University of Delaware’s CPAB Gospelrama Concert (2022), UD’s College of Engineering RISE Program’s 50th Anniversary (2023), and A Celebration of Black Joy, a collaboration with Jonathan Whitney’s artist/musician collective. An excerpt of Spivey’s new work: Authenticity (2024) premiered at Delaware Contemporary Art Museum for A+Nights, an intimate evening of dance.

Amber is a recipient of the 2024 Individual Artist Fellowship, as an emerging choreographer supported by DE Division of the Arts. Currently, Amber is a performing and teaching artist, emerging choreographer, mentor and coach.