Amy Foley is the founding artistic director of Bellwether Dance Project. Originally from Alaska, she is a long-time, active member of the San Francisco Bay Area dance community as a performer, teaching artist and choreographer. Amy has danced with numerous companies and independent choreographers, among them: Garrett+Moulton Productions, Margaret Jenkins Dance Company, ODC/Dance, Nol Simonse, KAMBARA+DANCERS, RAWdance, project b., Shift Physical Theater, and for over a decade, Robert Moses’ KIN. She is currently on faculty at ODC Dance Commons and Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts (SOTA). Amy has worked closely with Axis Dance Company as interim rehearsal director and with the students of Alonzo King’s LINES Dance Center, Academy of Ballet, and the San Francisco Conservatory of Dance in their summer intensives. She has taught master classes/workshops for Axis Dance Company, Shawl-Anderson Dance Center, LINES Dance Center, and at universities across the U.S.

In 2015 Amy created Bellwether Dance Project in order to gather and further her choreographic interests of collaboration and meaning-making. In 2017, along with three other dancer/mothers, she co-created the concert and program SEAM (Support and Elevate Artist Mothers), to support women’s leadership in the fields of choreography and dance. Amy and Bellwether Dance Project have received support from SAFEhouse for the Arts, Dancers’ Group, Zellerbach Family Foundation, community partner Eaze, and generous individuals. She is a recipient of the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company’s CHIME mentorship award, of an Opportunity Fund Grant from ODC and the Rainin Foundation, and was selected as a choreographer for ODC’s Sandbox Series. She lives in San Francisco with her family.

Photos of Amy Foley by Cola Gaeta and Stephen Texeira.