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Amber Gardner

Amber grew up dancing lyrical, tap, jazz, ballet, hip hop, and break-dancing. She completed her formal education at Brigham Young University, graduating with a Bachelors in Dance emphasizing in contemporary/modern. She has been able to perform with the Martha Graham Dance Company, Wasatch Contemporary Dance Company, Luki Dance Productions and has co-owned and directed Ash & Elm Dance Co. in Virginia. She had an opportunity to tour India with Contemporary Dance Theatre in 2012 and learned lot about traditional Indian dance and Yoga. This experience inspired her to become a 200hr certified Yoga Instructor. Amber’s choreography and movement styles are heavily based on Newton’s Third Law of Motion, “When one body exerts a force on a second body, the second body simultaneously exerts a force equal in magnitude and opposite in direction on the first body.”