Emily Coates

Emily Coates (choreographer, performer, writer) has performed internationally with New York City Ballet, Mikhail Baryshnikov’s White Oak Dance Project, Twyla Tharp and Yvonne Rainer. Highlights as a performer include duets with Baryshnikov in works by Erick Hawkins, Mark Morris, and Karole Armitage; principal roles in works by George Balanchine; working closely with Jerome Robbins in the last six years of his life (West Side Story Suite, 2 & 3 Part Inventions, Brandenburg, among others); and Rainer’s work from 1961 to the present. Her choreographic projects have been commissioned and presented by the Baryshnikov Arts Center, Guggenheim Works & Process, Wadsworth Atheneum, Quick Center for the Arts, Hopkins Center for the Arts, University of Chicago, Danspace Project (NYT Critic’s Pick 2017, NYT Fall Dance to Watch 2018), Performa (Best Dance 2019), and most recently in the performance exhibition Hard Return at the Neuberger Museum, among other venues, with support and fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Center for Ballet and the Arts, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Martha and James Duffy Memorial Fellowship/Baryshnikov Arts Center, and the National Endowment for the Arts. She is professor in the practice in Theater and Performance Studies and director of dance studies at Yale University, where she created the dance studies curriculum, and holds a secondary appointment in the Directing Program at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale. With physicist Sarah Demers, she co-authored Physics and Dance (Yale University Press, 2019). emilycoates.art