Emily is a UK-based dancer, choreographer, photographer, and educator whose interdisciplinary practice spans live and digital performance, site-specific work, dance for camera, and community-engaged projects. Originally from the Midlands, she trained in Contemporary Dance at Bretton Hall College of Arts, located at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, and has since built a rich and varied career rooted in the South West, now based in Cornwall.

With over 20 years of professional experience, Emily has performed and toured nationally and internationally with celebrated companies including WildWorks (100: UnEarth), Kneehigh (Don John), Rosemary Lee (Passage for Par), Motionhouse (Road to the Beach), Cscape Dance Company, Simon Birch, Agnieszka Blonska, and Yael Flexer. Her performance work spans theatre, outdoor, and site-based contexts, often intersecting with visual arts, storytelling, and landscape.

Emily’s independent choreographic work explores the intersection of personal narrative, place, and sound. Her current project, In My Head, is a dance-theatre work exploring hearing loss and auditory experience, developed in collaboration with sound designer Daniel Hayes (whose credits include Alesandra Seutin, Tony Adigun, Caroline Bowditch). Supported by Arts Council England through a DYCP grant, and partners including Hall for Cornwall, Kneehigh, and AMATA Falmouth University, it was previewed as part of the Kneehigh Presents programme. During the pandemic, she developed a companion audio project, Surrounded By Sound, supported by FEAST, expanding the work’s accessibility and reach.

Her choreography has been commissioned for major festivals and organisations including Inside Out Dorset, Theatre Royal Plymouth, Barbican Theatre, and multiple education and community partners. She has created site-responsive works at Trebah Gardens, The Lost Gardens of Heligan, Minack Theatre, and delivered creative projects in regions including Belfast, Yorkshire, the Midlands, and across the South West. Her teaching credits include creating performance work with undergraduates at Falmouth University in 2019 and 2020.

Emily also works in dance for camera and photography. Her collaborative films with director Brett Harvey (o-region, Lucasfilm, Kneehigh) have screened internationally. Her recent photography practice focuses on movement, portraiture and documentary work and is supported by a 2024-25 DYCP grant. This forms part of a broader project, ATLAS: recalibrating artistic practice through Motherhood, exploring identity, creativity, and sustainability for artist parents.

As a passionate advocate for professional development, Emily has initiated and led multiple training programmes. She conceived and curated the Dance Master Workshop Programme (2018–2022) for Hall for Cornwall in partnership with AMATA, bringing local, national, and international artists—including a Gaga intensive with Natalia Iwaniec—to the region. She also co-created Dance Camp with choreographer Theo Clinkard, a sold-out week-long residency at Heligan Gardens (2021/22), and co-founded the Freefall Dance Summer Intensive (2010–2017), establishing a successful partnership with Falmouth University.

Emily is deeply committed to creating space for women and artist parents. She is a member of the artist-parent network KERPOW, and recently launched Kinship Creatives, a new initiative to support artist M/others navigating creative careers alongside caregiving—born out of her own experience of early motherhood during the pandemic.

A skilled educator, Emily has delivered workshops and creative projects for primary and secondary schools, colleges, universities and theatre organisations across the UK and Northern Ireland. She has taught undergraduate dancers at Ulster University, and has been an Associate Lecturer at AMATA, Falmouth University since 2010, contributing to both Dance and Theatre courses. Her work includes module design, delivery and mentoring across all year groups, including a final-year Independent Study module focused on developing artistic identity and future pathways.

Emily regularly mentors emerging artists and was an Associate Artist at Hall for Cornwall (2019–2022). She also participated in the international networking programme through Arts Access, a collaboration between the Goethe-Institut and British Council.

Her work has been supported by Arts Council England, British Council, Hall for Cornwall, Kneehigh, AMATA, FEAST, Barbican Theatre Plymouth, and Plymouth Dance Peninsula.