Amparo Padilla

Dance Instructor

Songbirds Music, Art, & Dance Center

Amparo Amor Padilla was born in Boston, Massachusetts in the summer of 1994. She started her dance training in New York at the age of three with ballet and tap. As she became older expanded her dance training to jazz, hip-hop and modern. She attended Lumiere ballet under Svetlana Caton and Venti Petrov in Vaganova technique. In the summer of 2008 she moved from Long Island, NY to Orlando where she started taking classes at Orlando Ballet and realized that dance wasn't just a hobby anymore. She attended summer programs at Orlando ballet, Nashville ballet and Dance Theatre of Harlem. In 2012 she was accepted into New World School of the Arts where she was trained in ballet, pointe, Límon, Graham, Horton, Laban notation, composition, Alexander technique, Pilates, yoga and anatomy. As part of the bachelor program she took dance teaching methods where she fell in love with teaching the next generation of dancer. After receiving her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2016 she returned to the central Florida area to teach and spread dance wisdom.