Emily

**Troupe** | A-Troupe (Formerly)
Elite (Formerly)
 **Love Interests** | Hunter (Ex-Boyfriend)
Eldon (Ex-boyfriend)
 **Portrayed By** | Alexandra Beaton

**Emily** is a contemporary dancer and former co-captain of A-Troupe. Emily was the first person to find out about Amanda's plan to take down the next Step.

## History

Emily has been dancing at The Next Step Dance Studio since she was two years old, and worked her way up to A-Troupe easily. Before Michelle came, she had been Dance Captain for two years, the current year her third. She had a group, exclusively for girls who were in A-Troupe known as the E-girls (Emily's girls), and was their leader. When Michelle came, Emily felt extremely threatened, leading to her being horrible to Michelle. when she found out Michelle was a former National soloist at her old dance studio, she felt extremely threatened, so she began to gang up on her. Soon, however, people got tired of her cruelty and decided to take her status as Dance Captain, and give it to Michelle. She left The Next Step to go to Elite, after feeling like no one cared about her, but even at Elite the Dance Captain (Amanda) and the owner were conspiring against her. After a lot of prodding and begging from The Next Step, as well as knowing she was going to be kicked out of Elite, she came back to The Next Step. After returning from Elite, Emily was ready to share her Captaincy with Michelle, and they even became friends. Together they lead The Next Step team to victory at Regionals. However, their friendship was short-lived because Emily's boyfriend, Eldon, broke up with her for Michelle. Emily wanted to get Eldon back, so she hatched a plan with Hunter - Michelle's ex - to get each other's exes back, but they end up falling for each other instead. Even though she's proven her loyalty to A-Troupe, Emily can still forget that what's best for her is not always best for the team. She loses her captaincy in Game On due to her and Riley's plan to get rid of Amanda. After Amanda makes her break up with Hunter and do bad things like steal the costumes and money from the lock box. After a failed attempt to frame Amanda, she gets kicked out from the Next Step but thanks to Chloe figuring out Amanda stole the money she gets her captaincy back and her friends. Emily develops a very close friendship with West which leads to a romantic relationship. She injures her knee and is unable to compete in the final dance at Nationals.

## Personality

Emily was the typical 'mean girl' of A-Troupe. She is also shown as very competitive in the episode, Dance, Dance, where she stopped at nothing to beat Michelle as dance captain. Although, she is very caring towards her sister, Riley, although, shown in the episode, Rock And A Hard Place, she kicked Riley out of the E-girls. Emily is also very good at motivating people, when she gives a pep talk to the team about losing the dance battle in Dancing In The Streets. She also had a strong dislike towards Michelle. But they became friends and co-captains. She appears really mean during the first series or so towards the team, but in Season 1.5 you can see that she is behaving how she expects dance captains should, as she is willing to take that behavior towards herself, and expects and accepts this kind of behavior.

## Appearance

Emily has short, straight blonde hair and blue eyes. She likes very fashionable clothes and she's mean to people.