About Us

The Intelligent Body, LLC is owned by licensed certified athletic trainer Amanda Donahue, MS ATC. Specializing in performing arts medicine, Amanda brings over 15+ years of experience to her patient care. Growing up as a competitive roller skater and dancer (ballet, competitive ballroom, west coast swing, blues, and salsa), she recognizes performing artists are an underserved population and deserve high quality and individualized care. She strives to empower her artistic athletes with information to take care of their bodies not only in the present, but for the future.

Amanda also serves as the Performing Arts Athletic Trainer Program Coordinator for the Palladino School of Dance & School of the Arts at Dean College for the past 10 years. Her time at Dean has allowed growth in her skill set working with a variety of performing art students presenting with both acute and chronic injuries, as well as an opportunity to collaborate with dance faculty for various injury prevention and performance enhancement workshops. 


Through collaboration with dance faculty and professional dancer, Kristina Berger, the name of The Intelligent Body was created. Sparked on the concept of how athletic training principles and the Horton technique could combine to create intelligent dancers, both took their collaboration to present at the International Association for Dance Medicine & Science in Houston, TX. 
Amanda has continued to stay connected in the performing arts medicine community through organizations such as the Performing Arts Athletic Trainers’ Society, Performing Arts Medicine Association, National Athletic Trainers’ Association, and Athletes and the Arts.

Amanda recently joined the staff of L’Ecole de Ballet in the spring of 2023 offering Pointe Readiness Movement Screens and Injury Prevention Workshops. In order to expand her services available to the dancers of L’Ecole de Ballet, Dean College Alumni and beyond, the creation of her private practice, The Intelligent Body, LLC was born.