Amy Schofield is a US-American flamenco dancer, scholar, educator, and choreographer whose research explores the development and evolution of flamenco dance in the diaspora. She holds a PhD in Dance Studies from The Ohio State University, an MFA in Dance from the University of New Mexico, and a BFA in Dance from the University of the Arts (Philadelphia, PA). She has studied flamenco baile and cante at the Fundación de Arte Flamenco de Cristina Heeren in Seville and the Centro de Arte Flamenco y Danza Española Amor de Dios in Madrid, as well as in numerous workshops in Spain and the US. Her teaching credits include part-time instructor at Ohio Wesleyan University, community and private lessons for all ages, and arts education residencies for kindergarten through high school in Philadelphia, New York, and North Carolina as a teaching artist with NYC-based Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana (2015-2021). In summer 2024, she created the archive at the National Institute of Flamenco in Albuquerque, NM as a Dance/USA Archiving and Preservation, and in 2025, she received a Selma Jeanne Cohen Award for excellence in dance scholarship from the Dance Studies Association. She currently teaches and performs with U Will Dance Studio and Caña Flamenca. 

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• Schofield, Amy. 2023. “‘It’s Not Because It’s Not There, That It Isn’t There’: Visibility and Invisibility with Black Flamenco Performance.” Performance Research 28(5): 34-40.