Amy Seiwert

She is the founder and artistic director of Amy Seiwert’s Imagery, a contemporary ballet company in San Francisco.

Seiwert has collaborated with visual designers Marc Morozumi and Matthew Antaky, composers Daniel Bernard Roumain, Christen Lien, and Kevin Keller, media designer Frieder Weiss and spoken-word artist Marc Bamuthi Joseph.

[4][5] In April 2023, Seiwert was named Associate Artistic Director of Smuin Ballet, and in July 2023, Smuin Ballet announced that Seiwert will be appointed Artistic Director for the company's 31st Season in Fall 2024, following the retirement of Celia Fushille.

[8] Amy Seiwert is known for her willingness to take creative risks to innovate classical ballet choreography.

[10][11] Rita Felciano of the San Francisco Bay Guardian has said Seiwert, "...quite possibly is the Bay Area’s most original dance thinker, taking what some consider a dead language and using it as a 21st-century lingo to tell us something about who we are.”[12] Amy Seiwert's work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, San Francisco Grants for the Arts, Kenneth Rainin Foundation, California Arts Council, Fleishhacker Foundation, New Music USA, and the Zellerbach Family Foundation.