Emily Coates
Jan 2nd - 11th

Emily Coates 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; Lucinda Childs' seminal solo Carnation; and Rainer's work from 1961 to the present. Her choreographic projects have 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 (Best Dance 2019, with Yvonne Rainer), and in the 2023 exhibition Hard Return at the Neuberger Museum, among others.  She is Professor in the Practice and Director of Dance Studies at Yale University, where she created the dance curriculum.