Founding Artist
Shannon Amoureux is a fellow founding creator of KineticArchitecture.
She makes her home in Seattle & continues to explore dance, art & performance while sharing her divine talent & journey...
Miss Amoureux's background ranges from modern with a Graham influence to classical
ballet, creative movement for children as well as experimental and improvisational
dance theatre, Performance art, Butoh, and Burlesque.
As a choreographer, Shannon draws upon her extensive background to create diverse dances with limitless possibilities that never fail to provide a healthy array of visual and philosophical food for the palate of the eye and the mind.
Shannon Amoureux has been described by critics as "gracefully feminine but strong as nails, with a wry sense of deadpan comedic timing" -Houston Chronicle, and as a Modern Dance meets Burlesque "Venus De Milo re-armed and come to life" -Phildaelphia Inquirer. She is the Co-Founder of KineticArchitecture, a professional, not-for-profit modern dance company. Miss Amoureux trained under the direction of John Adamson in Houston, TX, Dana Nicolay and Teresa Walshak-Trump in Huntsville, TX, and with Seán Curran, the Paul Taylor School, and Peridance Center in New York City. She has served on the faculties of the Adamson Ballet School (TX), the Rowland Ballard School of Ballet & Gymnastics (TX), DanceArts (MO), the Columbia Performing Arts Center (MO), and the Dynamic Youth Dance Center (NJ), Stephens College and The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. Shannon has been a guest teacher/choreographer for the Inbal Dance Theatre (Israel), Western Arkansas Ballet, Stephens College Summer Dance, and the Day Springs School of the Arts. She has performed with KineticArchitecture in New York City and throughout Texas, Oklahoma, and Missouri. Miss Amoureux’s choreography has been presented most notably at WAX in NYC, The 92nd Street Y’s Harkness Dance Center in NYC, the JCC of Houston’s Summer Dance Festival and Dance Month at the Kaplan Theatre, Miller Outdoor Theatre in Houston, and on the Gala of the Mid-America Dance Network Conference in Kansas City. She holds a B.F.A. in Dance from Sam Houston State University. Her experience in the area of outreach programming includes co-designing and implementing a 15 hour per week program at Lee School of Expressive Arts (a public arts magnet elementary school) in Columbia, MO, that served over 450 students for which KineticArchitecture received generous city grants. She served as the Assistant Dance Coordinator at the Jewish Community Center of Houston from 2001-2003, where she taught Modern Dance, Ballet, and Creative Movement, as well as organized and assisted in planning dance events throughout the year including Dance Month at the Kaplan Theatre.