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About
Jill Amantea is a professional dancer, actress, published model, choreographer, and dance instructor originally from Rossland, B.C. and now based in Toronto, ON. She has over a decade of professional experience performing nationally and internationally for numerous live events, concerts, music videos, commercials, TV series, films, promotional shoots, virtual projects, and stage productions.
Performance credits include performing for: Disney Cruise Line, Club Med Resorts, Canada's Wonderland, TDC Entertainment, MM Entertainment, Edllusion Entertainment, Bravo's Dance Company, Samba Heat, Hit and Run Dance Productions, Virtual Venue Theatricals, Dance : Corps Company, The Gold Fever Follies, and Stephanie Ballard & Dancers. She has performed as a backup dancer for a variety of international artists, including: SASY, Saif Nabeel, Mhyssa, and 25Band.
Recent projects include: commercials for Bell Media, Enercare, Destination Toronto, Night Owl Security, Team Shane, Ntry GTA, Worksport Ltd, Thumper Massager, Superstars Realty, Greenworks, Sorrento Retirement Residence, Yonge Burger, Leva Sleep, Meta Quest Pro, Caforia, Bingz Canada, Euroca, Origin Weddings, & Grandeur Flooring, lead role in the short film, La Luna, supporting roles in the feature film, Switched at Death and TV series Dark Side of the Ring, promotional stills and video for Showcase, Yorkville Sports Medicine, Key West Video, West Egg Security, Brighto White, Yice Water, Thousand Miles, Bottoms Lab, & Getty Images, TikTok commercials for a variety of mobile games, apps, and online stores, Music Videos for Ranjit Bawa, Ginda Randhawa, Babak Amini & Mehran Aminian, Amit Kumar, Niloufar Azar, Chris Sunfield, Hamed Monavari, Ryan Yango, Amit ft. Gurlez Akhtar & DJ Gagan ft Naseebo. Jill was recently published as the featured covergirl for Vigour Magazine. She has assisted in producing several virtual productions as a performer, assistant choreographer & dance captain for: VVT's the Wizard of Oz, A Killer Party, Heathers the Musical, VVT Christmas Spectacular, My Favorite Podcast: the unofficial My Favorite Murder Musical, & Peace, Love & Cupcakes. She was part of the choreographic team for Club Med Punta Cana and the lead choreographer and show rehearsal director for Club Med Ixtapa Pacific.
Jill holds a Bachelor of Arts degree majoring in dance from the University of Winnipeg in affiliation with the School of Contemporary Dancers. Having the opportunity to work with many world-renowned choreographers including: Darryl Tracy, Susie Burpee, Paul Andre-Fortier, Bill Evans, Paula Blair, Casmiro Nhussi, Davida Monk, Connie Cooke, Odette Heyn, and Gaile Petursson-Hiley, Jill has also trained at Decidedly Jazz Danceworks, the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Cecchetti International Ballet Summer Course / Alberta Ballet, Salzburg International Ballet Academy, and Kootenay DanceWorks.
When she’s not performing, she enjoys traveling, cooking, learning new languages, and sharing her passion for performing with the next generation of dancers as a private coach, guest dance instructor and choreographer for Get Low Dance Co, Virtual Venue Theatricals, Cabbagetown Community Arts Centre, Rossland Recreation, and Kootenay DanceWorks.