TEACHING

Emily has extensive experience as a teacher & practitioner leading classes & workshops for dance & theatre companies, educational institutions (Primary, Secondary & HE), organisations, community groups & as part of her own independent practice across the UK & Northern Ireland for over 25 years.

Across all of her teaching practice Emily explores her physical & performative experience across dance & theatre, using an evolving combination of set exercises & improvisational play, technical precision & the imagination as a tool to train the body & mind, to affectingly expressive capabilities. She holds the space for people to be seriously playful, curiously risk taking & to work deeply & freely to discover untapped potential. Emily leads professionals through to untrained novices.

In 2019 she began exploring her choreographic practice through her Immersive Imaginations Workshop Series. A series of WORKSHOPS led by Emily, part of her physical research & creative exploration as a dancer & choreographer. A way to develop thinking, creative, expressive & technically driven dancers. A testing ground for Emily’s choreographic ideas exploring the interplay between set & improvised movement structures with quality & sensation. A way to use photography & writing techniques to ignite & surface ideas, document process & capture final sharing of research.

She has taught company class for WildWorks, Cscape Dance, Freefall Dance, Panta Rei Danseteater & Shabana Jayasingh. She has been an Associate Lecturer of Dance at Falmouth University since 2010 & worked for two of those years as a part-time member of staff.