Artistic Director

biography

Amy Carter Casimir’s ballet training started when she was 8 years old, in Los Angeles, California. She began performing at the age of 13, when she was accepted into the pre-professional Pasadena Ballet Theater. There she danced lead roles in the annual Nutcracker production, spring choreography show, and traveled to yearly regional dance festivals. She attended summer intensives at San Francisco Ballet school, Pacific Northwest Ballet school and Joffrey Ballet school, and at 16 Amy was chosen to attend a summer program at the Royal Ballet School in England. That year she also participated as a dancer for a choreographic competition held in Tokyo. In 1992 she competed in the Music Center Spotlight Awards in Los Angeles and won the grand prize. She continued her training in ballet, Pilates, and Gyrotonics in New York City under the best teachers of the day, including her future husband, Trey Casimir. With NYC as her base she performed with Eglevsky Ballet, Princeton Ballet, New Jersey Ballet, Edward Zawicki and Dancers, was a guest artist at Twin Cities (IL) Ballet, and danced in the “Nutcracker” and “Stars and Stripes” with Pennsylvania Ballet.

Now based in Trey’s hometown of Lewisburg, PA, she is the owner and artistic director of Strictly Ballet, a ballet school dedicated to classical ballet training for all ages and levels. She has been a guest teacher at Bucknell University and hosted the pre-show interview with Victor Quijada of Rubberband dance company in November of 2024. In 2018 Amy created “A Lewisburg Victorian Nutcracker” with co-producing partner RiverStage Community Theatre, and has been artistic director for the annual event every year since. In 2019, Amy created “A Victorian Fairy Garden Party,” which she has produced and directed each July, ever since. Other local credits include choreographing RiverStage’s production of “Spamalot” in 2022 and waltzing with Trey in RiverStage’s production of “Sound of Music” in 2023.