Professor
amyls@hawaii.edu
Interdisciplinary Studies Faculty
IS Director
Courses:
DNCE 231 Intermediate Contemporary Dance Technique
DNCE 321ntermediate Ballet Technique
DNCE 331 High Intermediate Contemporary Dance Technique
DNCE 421 Advanced Ballet Technique
DNCE 431 Advanced Contemporary Dance Technique
DNCE 470 Dance Performance
THEA 470 Creative Drama
DNCE 490 Creative Dance
DNCE 495 Senior Project
DNCE 651 Dance Research Seminar
DNCE 652 Seminar: Dance Criticism
DNCE 672 Dance Performance
DNCE 679 Directed Choreography
DNCE/THEA 691 Seminar in Teaching
DNCE/THEA 692 Practicum in Teaching
DNCE/THEA 693 Internship: Youth/Theatre Dance
DNCE/THEA 700 Creative and Research Projects
Amy Schiffner is a faculty member and Director of Interdisciplinary Studies (IS) and cooperating Graduate Faculty with the Department of Theatre and Dance.
In Theatre and Dance, she oversees the MA Dance Education program as well as the Curriculum Specialization track within the MFA Theatre for Young Audiences (TYA) program. Schiffner is the UH site director for ArtBridge America, a program that develops and implements interdisciplinary arts education curriculum for local and neighboring island K-12 schools.
Schiffner holds an MFA from the University of California at Irvine, a BA from California State University Long Beach and a Post-Baccalaureate Teaching Credential from CBU. Her research in arts curriculum, instruction and assessment has been published and presented nationally. In addition to her arts education work Schiffner actively engages in creative projects; choreographing contemporary dance pieces and theatre for young audiences productions. Schiffner was a 2004 Innovative Choreographer recipient from the National Dance Alliance. In 2012, she received a Hawaiʻi State Theatre Council Poʻokela Award for her choreography in the Kennedy Theatre production of Ocean’s Motion.