Amara Barnes, from Chicago, IL, is an accomplished and experienced artist with an extended background in training and molding students into accomplished and versatile dancers. Trained by Watmora Casey and Sherry Moray, she gained attention at various summer programs such as Orlando Ballet, Lines Ballet, and Ballet Austin with her classical and contemporary versatility on a full scholarship. She then started teaching at age 16 as an assistant teacher at the prestigious Julliard School in New York City, NY with Carmen Rostratzen from Lines Ballet and then to be a company dancer for the Walt Disney Company and Orlando Ballet in Orlando, FL. She has danced worldwide performing for Symbiosis Arts since 2016 in works performed at Detroit Dance Festival, ReverbDance Festival, CDC Fest, Dance Canvas, Dance For Life, RadFest and worked with choreographers such as Randy Duncan, Braeden Barnes, Francisco Avina, Nick Pupillo, Anna Long, Shannon Alvis & Noelle Kayser to name a few. Driven by her classical training and continuous performance work, she takes pride in providing the best teaching possible for Chicagoland and nationally talented dance studios such as A&A Ballet, Grainger Academy of Joffrey Ballet, Symbiosis Arts and started the Creative Movement program at Symbiosis since 2020 for special need kids and adults in the Chicagoland area. In addition to her current professional dance and teaching job functions, she graduated with a Doctor of Psychology in 2021 from Rush Medical is currently is the director of all NeuroDoctors with Prentice Women’s Hospital/ Northwestern Medcine.