Amanda Pierce was a dancer for Triple Threat Performing Arts for most of her competition career. During that time, she became a very successful award winning performer, and as such became known as “Fierce Pierce” in the dance world. Her success was a reflection of the direction, training and guidance given to her by the teachers at Triple Threat Performing Arts. As such, the “Fierce Pierce Scholarship” was born. The scholarship is to be awarded to the person demonstrating by essay and performance the best potential for a professional career. Each year, the scholarship recipient will be announced at the annual studio recital. AMANDA PIERCE Amanda is a native Californian where she trained in dance since the age of three. She resides in New York City and has been on the faculty of the national dance convention NRG Dance Project for four years. In the past year, Amanda performed at the Super Bowl, as well as with Lenny Kravitz, Green Day and Constantine Maroulis. She was a professional NFL cheerleader for the New York Jets for five years and graced the pages of her team’s swimsuit calendar. Presently Amanda has her CD, KARMA, available on ITunes, Amazon, Billboard and other music sites. Both the Oakland Tribune and KRON TV dubbed her the “Queen of Tap” after she won the Tap Title at the World Cup Dance Championships in Italy. Her credits include: Television - Mornings on Fox, So You Think You Can Dance, The CBS Early Show, The O’Reilly Factor, Fox and Friends, The Dr. Oz Show, NFL Draft Radio City, Madden NFL 12 Premiere, Fox Business News, Jets Nation, Good Morning New York, KRON Weekends, and interviewed on KGO Talk Radio. In Mexico City, she did numerous interviews and performances on Fox Sports, TV Azteca, and Sky TV. Theater - Recipient of two Dean Goodman Choice Awards for winning roles in “We’ll Take Manhattan” and “Rodgers and Hammerstein…with Hart”. Other credits include “A Chorus Line” (Bebe), “Beat It Down”, “We’ll Take Manhattan…Again”, and “Cabaret in Concert”. She was featured in “An Evening with Tai and Randy” with Tai Babilonia and Randy Gardner and toured Europe with the American Dance Company as a principle dancer. She was also a soloist at the renowned Duke Theater on Times Square in the “Broadway Dance Showcase”. In addition to her World Tap Title she also won the Miss Dance America title in Panama City, and the Miss Dance USA title in Las Vegas. During her competition career, in national championships Amanda won a combination of 28 #1 overall and Miss Dance titles. Amanda is an alumna of New York’s Hofstra University where she attended on a dance scholarship. Amanda thanks Triple Threat Performing Arts for their guidance and much of her success.
Posted on: Wed, 14 May 2014 18:46:37 +0000
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