Emily is a UK based dancer & choreographer working across dance & theatre, live & digital formats, & communities.
Originally from the Midlands, she trained in Contemporary Dance at Bretton Hall College of Arts in Yorkshire & is now based in Cornwall. Her extensive performance career spans national & international touring including Northern Ireland & the USA, site-specific work, small to large-scale productions, working with companies & artists including Rosemary Lee, WildWorks, Kneehigh Theatre, Simon Birch Dance Company, Cscape Dance, Yael Flexer & Agnieszka Blońska.
Emily choreographs with trained and non-trained dancers, her work has been commissioned & supported by Arts Council England, arts organisations, companies & educational institutions across the UK & Northern Ireland. Emily’s dance-for-camera collaborations with filmmaker Brett Harvey have been screened regularly across the South West & toured internationally.
She maintains an evolving photographic practice, in 2025 completing a period of focused professional development with her Arts Council England project ATLAS; A Re-negotiation of Artistic Practice, exploring a return to dance & creative practice through early parenthood.
She is currently developing touring work for 2027 In My Head, a new one woman dance theatre work exploring everyday sound & hearing loss with an original, innovative sound design by Sound Designer Dan Hayes which includes support by Arts Council England, Hall for Cornwall, AMATA (Falmouth University), and Kneehigh Theatre, with work-in-progress sharing’s being performed at Falmouth International Arts Festival 2026.
A dynamic collaborator, mentor & instigator, she has conceived and led artist development programmes and residencies, largely inspired by international research in Norway, Belgium and London supported by an Artists International Development Fund (AIDF) in 2017.
Emily is also an Associate Lecturer at AMATA, Falmouth University, Associate Artist of Hall for Cornwall (2018–2023), & a member of an international networking programme through Arts Access, in partnership with the Goethe-Institut & British Council (2020–21).
