
Amy Schofield
Graduate Teaching Associate
she/her/hers
316 Sullivant Hall
1813 N High St
Columbus OH 43210
Areas of Expertise
- Flamenco
- Latine Studies
- Dance Archiving and Preservation
Education
- MFA in Dance, The University of New Mexico
- BFA in Dance, The University of the Arts
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. After beginning her flamenco education in Philadelphia with Anna and Tito Rubio, she obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance from the University of the Arts (Philadelphia, PA) and a Master of Fine Arts in Dance from the University of New Mexico. 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 instructor and guest lecturer positions at UNM and Temple 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. While pursuing her PhD in Dance Studies, she is teaching and performing with U Will Dance Studio, The Flamenco Company of Columbus, and Caña Flamenco. In summer 2024, she created the archive at the National Institute of Flamenco in Albuquerque, NM as a Dance/USA Archiving and Preservation Fellow.
Select Publications
- 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.
- Schofield, Amy. 2023. “‘Just Stick to the Flamenco’: Flamenco on NBC’s World of Dance.” In Dance in US Popular Culture, edited by Jennifer Atkins, 242-245. Abingdon and New York: Routledge. (This anthology was awarded the 2024 John G. Cawelti Award for Best Textbook/Primer from the Popular Culture Association.)