Dancer, Actor, Teacher, Writer, Singer

Born and raised in London, Amarnah is a contemporary dancer with roots from Nigeria. Her professional training begun at the London Contemporary Dance School where she gained a First class BA (Hons), prior to that she studied at the Brit School of Performing Arts and was one of the first members of the Laban CAT scheme. Amarnah is a former company member of VERVE (2016), the post-graduate performance company at Northern School of Contemporary Dance. Here she worked with Anton Lachky, Renaud Wiser, Athina Vahla and Efrosini Protopapa, touring original works around the UK and Europe.

Amarnah has since worked for various dance artists, theatre companies and film directors, performing in theatres, art spaces and on screen worldwide. These include Natasha Gilmore’s Barrowland Ballet touring Scotland, England and South Africa, Tara D’arquian, Igor and Moreno, Susanna Ajaye, Breach Theatre Company touring the UK and Möbius Dance.

Amarnah is also a founding member of The Sparse Collective, an improvisation dance theatre collective.