Emily is a 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 Błońska.
She is currently developing In My Head, a new one woman dance theatre work exploring everyday sound & hearing loss with an original, innovative sound design by Dan Hayes. Supported in 2019 through a Developing Your Creative Practice (DYCP) grant from Arts Council England, with additional support from Hall for Cornwall, AMATA (Falmouth University), and Kneehigh Theatre, after a hiatus the project is being produced by Impossible Producing with work-in-progress sharing’s being performed at Falmouth International Arts Festival in March 2026.
She choreographs with trained and non-trained dancers, her work has been commissioned & supported by Arts Council England, arts organisations, companies & educational institutions. 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 project ATLAS supported by Arts Council England, exploring a return to dance & creative practice through early parenthood.
Recent projects include commissioned work performed at Inside Out Dorset, an international outdoor arts festival, & co-choreographing a full-length contemporary dance work with mature dancers for Inner Ground Dance Company, in collaboration with Pete Shenton & composer Matthew Thomason.
A dynamic collaborator, mentor & instigator, her independent artistic research has taken her to Norway, Belgium & London. She has founded multiple artist development programmes for dancers in the South West, spearheading the professional development Dance Master Workshop Programme (2019-2023) with Hall for Cornwall, curating & producing 12 workshops annually, binging a variety of practices - many with an international flavour to Cornwall including a GAGA Dancers residency (2019). She also produced the Dance Camp residency with Hall for Cornwall (2021-22) at the stunning Heligan Gardens, created and hosted with choreographer Theo Clinkard.
Emily is an Associate Lecturer at AMATA, Falmouth University (2010–present), where she was a part-time staff member for two years (2015-17). She choreographed undergraduate works for Dance & Choreography students in 2019 & 2020. She was an Associate Artist of Hall for Cornwall (2018–2023), & a member of an international networking programme (2020–21) through Arts Access, in partnership with the Goethe-Institut & British Council.
