Her choreographic works have been presented across the state on the NC Dance Festival tour, and other venues, and in New York City at the Merce Cunningham studio. Emily is a recipient of an Outstanding Teaching Award for ASU’s College of Fine and Applied Arts. She earned her M.F.A. in Dance Performance from The Ohio State University and B.F.A. in Choreography and Performance, and B. A. in Studio Art from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. From 2002-04 she was on faculty for the Silesian Dance Theatre’s summer festival in Poland. Emily danced with both the John Gamble Dance Theater and the Jan Van Dyke Dance Group from 1996-2001 and since has continued to collaborate and perform with a variety of professional artists.