Amy Raymond danced professionally as a soloist with Dutch National Ballet and and with William Forsythe’s Frankfurt Ballet. Over the last 10 years she has worked as freelance choreographer, improvisation teacher, ballet teacher, and stages the works of William Forsythe. She has worked in many professional companies and schools and crosses both the classical and contemporary worlds. Some of these institutions include The Forsythe Company, Paris Opera, San Francsico Ballet, Dutch National Ballet, Carte Blanche, Skanes Dans Theater, Norrdans, Goteborg DansKompani, Cullberg, Royal New Zealand Ballet, Chunky Move, Ballet de Marseilles, Hubbard Street, Lines pre-Professional Program, Ohio University D.A.N.C.E program, Codarts, National Ballet Academie, Artez, Royal Conservatory Den Hague, and the Palucca Schule Dresden. Over the past 8 years she has studied with Budo master Akira Hino sensei and has integrated his unique knowledge of the body in all aspects of her work. In 2014, Amy launched the Budo Ballet Initiative, a unique project researching how Akira Hino’s method can be applied to the classical ballet technique.
Together with Dana Caspersen Amy offers the workshop The Practice of Connection.