EveryBody Dances with Emily Coates

EveryBody Dances @ Yale Schwarzman Center brings local and visiting dance artists to our Dance Studio to teach masterclasses in jazz, hip hop, salsa, modern, contemporary, precision dance and more! All community members are welcome. This week's class will be led by Emily Coates and is titled Movement Research. 

Movement Research: This immersive workshop delves into strategies that use movement as a method of research, which in turn becomes a generative engine for creativity.  We will experiment with choreographic scores that fine-tune perception, explore the connection between moving and writing, and culminate by creating our own short movement studies. Come prepared to move, and bring a notebook and pencil. All levels and abilities are welcome. 

Emily Coates is a dancer, choreographer, and writer who has performed internationally with New York City Ballet, Mikhail Baryshnikov's White Oak Dance Project, Twyla Tharp and Yvonne Rainer. Career highlights include three duets with Baryshnikov in works by Erick Hawkins, Mark Morris, and Karole Armitage; principal roles in works by George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins; performing and teaching Rainer's work from 1961 to the present, and most recently dancing in Joan Jonas's video installation To Touch Sound (2024), commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art.  Her choreographic work has been commissioned and presented by the Baryshnikov Arts Center, Works & Process at the Guggenheim, Carnegie Hall, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Quick Center for the Arts at Fairfield University, Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth, University of Chicago, Danspace Project (NYT Critic’s Pick 2017, NYT Fall Dance to Watch 2018), Performa (NYT Best Dance 2019, with Yvonne Rainer). In 2023 she was a featured artist in the exhibition Hard Return at the Neuberger Museum. Awards and fellowships include the School of American Ballet’s Mae L. Wein Award for Outstanding Promise; BAC's Martha Duffy Memorial Fellowship; 2016 Fellow of the Center for Ballet and the Arts; 2019-2020 Dance Research Fellow, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts; with support from Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, New England Foundation for the Arts, and National Endowment for the Arts, among others. She is Professor in the Practice of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies and Director of Dance Studies at Yale University, where she created the dance curriculum and the Yale Dance Lab. She holds a BA in English '06 and a PhD in American Studies '24 from Yale. She co-authored Physics and Dance with physicist Sarah Demers (Yale University Press 2019), and co-edited Remembering a Dance: Parts of Some Sextets, 1965/2019 with Yvonne Rainer (Lenz Press 2023). emilycoates.art

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