Faculty Biographies
Amy Casimir
Owner & Head Instructor at Strictly Ballet
Artistic Director for A Lewisburg Victorian Nutcracker &
A Victorian Fairy Garden Party
Amy Carter Casimir's ballet training started when she was 8 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 NYC under the best teachers of the day. With New York as her base she performed with Eglevsky Ballet, Princeton Ballet, New Jersey Ballet, performed with 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 Lewisburg, she is the director of Strictly Ballet, a ballet school dedicated to classical ballet training for all ages and levels. Strictly Ballet and partner RiverStage Community Theatre co-produce A Lewisburg Victorian Nutcracker, and our summer Nutcracker fundraiser A Victorian Fairy Garden Party.
