Amy Stoddart, Associate Professor
(541) 346-3387 • 165 Gerlinger Annex
stoddart@uoregon.edu

Amy Lynn Stoddart is an Associate Professor of Dance at the University of Oregon specializing in ballet technique and dance history. She serves the department as Graduate Coordinator and UO-RDC (University of Oregon Repertory Dance Company) Director.

Amy received her MFA from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1998. She received her BA from Mercyhurst College Ballet Department in 1993 and studied intensively at the Cincinnati Conservatory from 1990 – 1991. Her professional training includes summer programs and internships at Boston Ballet, Buffalo Inner City Ballet, and Tulsa Ballet Theatre where she was awarded a full scholarship to study at the David Howard Center in New York.

She began her performance career at the age of 18 in the corps de ballet of the Lake Erie Ballet. Throughout her professional career she has danced as a soloist with the Empire State Ballet and Ballet Caravan, as a principal with the Boulder Ballet and Opera Colorado, and as a guest artist with the Eugene Ballet and the modern dance company, Dance Theater of Oregon. Amy has had the pleasure of dancing principal and soloist roles in ballets such as Giselle, Nutcracker, Les Sylphides, Firebird, Paquita, Coppelia, Bolero, Carnival of The Animals, Swan Lake, Balanchine’s Concert Barocco, and countless original works by Milenko Banovich, Rebecca Jancosko, Barbara Demaree, Gregory Drotar, Mary Price-Boday, Robin Haig, and Jay Kirk.

Amy is currently proud to be a principal dancer with Rita Honka Dance, a regional modern dance company founded by Rita Honka, full time instructor of dance in the University of Oregon Department of Dance.

Amy has actively choreographed for universities, professional organizations, and ballet companies throughout the United States including Ballet Illinois, Boulder Ballet, Empire State Ballet, Youth Ballet Colorado, Eugene Youth Ballet, University of Colorado, Mercyhurst College, and the University of Oregon Repertory Dance Company.