Emily is a UK based dancer and choreographer working across dance and theatre, live and digital formats, and communities.
Originally from the Midlands, she trained in Contemporary Dance at Bretton Hall College of Arts in Yorkshire and is now based in Cornwall. Her extensive performance career spans national and international touring including Northern Ireland and the USA, site-specific work, small to large-scale productions, working with companies and artists including Rosemary Lee, WildWorks, Kneehigh Theatre, Simon Birch Dance Company, Cscape Dance, Yael Flexer and Agnieszka Blońska.
Emily choreographs with trained and non-trained dancers, her work has been commissioned and supported by Arts Council England, arts organisations, companies and educational institutions across the UK and Northern Ireland. Emily’s dance-for-camera collaborations with filmmaker Brett Harvey have been screened regularly across the South West and 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 and 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 and 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 and 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. From 2019-2023 she curated & led the Dance Master Workshop Programme with Hall for Cornwall.
Emily is also an Associate Lecturer at AMATA, Falmouth University (2010-present), 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).
