Amalia Garcia-Aboy

Amalia García is a performance artist, movement facilitator and academic exploring the meeting place between embodied creativity and human connection. Her work weaves together dance-theatre, somatic enquiry and Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy, opening spaces where movement becomes a practice of inner listening and collective presence.

Originally from Galicia, Spain and now based in the UK, Amalia has worked as a performer, deviser and community practitioner with artists and companies across Europe. She is a Senior Lecturer in Dance and Performance at the University of Bedfordshire, where she leads the BA in Dance and Performing Arts and the development of the new MA in Creative Health.

Amalia’s practice bridges artistic and therapeutic fields through practice-based research and creative collaboration. Whether in performance, teaching or facilitation, her work invites presence, tenderness and courage - celebrating the body as a place of truth and belonging.

Amalia’s creative projects often bring communities and the arts into conversation. In 2018, she collaborated with Mind and the University’s Psychology department to create Mind ME (The Human Book Store Project) - a live performance sharing personal journeys of recovery. In 2019, she was commissioned by Hear and Now to direct an intergenerational performance with Tibbs Dementia Foundation’s Music 4 Memory, Fusion Youth Singing, musicians from the Philharmonia Orchestra and Tim Steiner, exploring the impact of creative participation on wellbeing.

Most recently, Amalia has begun a new collaboration with Rhiannon Faith Company as a performer in Mary Mary - a new work rooted in care, creativity and social change. Rhiannon Faith Company makes radically tender dance theatre, working nationally on big stages and locally with communities on the margins, always with social change and care at its heart. This collaboration sits at the intersection of Amalia’s interests in embodied performance, collective presence and creative health.

She also partnered with The Wellbeing Centre in Bedford – The Recovery College, delivering Moving in My Recovery workshops that blended movement, listening and embodied enquiry - opening space for participants to deepen self-listening and resource internal ease.

Alongside her artistic and academic work, Amalia assists on Internal Family Systems Institute trainings in the UK, where she brings movement and embodied presence into therapeutic learning spaces. Her practice weaves performance, facilitation and research, creating spaces where creativity, care and presence meet.

• Choreography and Movement Direction
• Dance Technique
• Improvisation;
  • contact improvisation and improvisation in performance
• Physical Theatre
• Dance Theatre
• Creative Health