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Dance Dept: Workshop with Dancer, Choreographer, Scholar Emily Coates

Mon, November 11th, 2024
11:00 am
- 12:45 pm

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This workshop will be held during the DANC 300/304 Advanced Ballet class time, but a small number of observers are also welcome — please contact Janine Parker at jmp2@williams.edu for more information.

The workshop is funded by Dance Department individual faculty events/visitors allotments.

Dancer/writer/performance-maker/filmmaker Emily Coates has performed internationally with New York City Ballet, Mikhail Baryshnikov’s White Oak Dance Project, Twyla Tharp, and Yvonne Rainer. Highlights of her thirty-year career in dance include performing three duets with Baryshnikov, in works by Erick Hawkins, Mark Morris, and Karole Armitage; principal roles in ballets by George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins—with whom she worked closely in the last six years of his life; Lucinda Childs’ seminal solo Carnation; and the span of Rainer’s work, from 1961 to the present.

Her choreographic work has been commissioned and presented by Baryshnikov Arts Center, Carnegie Hall, Danspace Project (NYT Critics Pick 2017 & 2018), Works & Process at the Guggenheim, University of Chicago, Yale University Art Gallery, Wadsworth Atheneum, Performa (NYT Best Dance of 2019), Quick Center for the Arts, and the Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth, among others. She is one of five transmitters of Yvonne Rainer’s Trio A (1966), which she has performed for the past twenty-five years, and reconstructed with Rainer her 1965 dance Parts of Some Sextets for Performa 19. Her collaborators have included Charlie Burnham, Taylor Ho Bynum, Lacina Coulibaly, Sarah Demers, Liz Diamond, Ain Gordon, Derek Lucci, Josiah McElheny, Will Orzo, Emmanuèle Phuon, and Yvonne Rainer.

Awards and fellowships include the School of American Ballet’s Mae L. Wein Award for Outstanding Promise; Baryshnikov Arts Center’s Martha Duffy Memorial Fellowship; Yale’s Poorvu Family Award for Interdisciplinary Teaching; the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant for the Public Understanding of Science, Technology, and Economics, and a National Endowment for the Arts presentation grant. She was a 2016 Fellow at the Center for Ballet and the Arts and a 2019 Dance Research Fellow at the Jerome Robbins Dance Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

With physicist Sarah Demers, she is co-author of Physics and Dance (Yale University Press 2019). Her essays have appeared in TDRPAJTheater, programs and an exhibition catalogue for the Paris Opera Ballet, and the Oxford Handbook for Contemporary Ballet (2021).

She is Professor in the Practice and Director of Dance Studies in Theater, Dance and Performance Studies at Yale University. Since 2006, she founded the development of a dance studies curriculum at Yale, which has grown into a flourishing program of eight full- and part-time faculty and offerings that are widely cross-listed with other departments in the arts, humanities, and science. In 2010, she founded the Yale Dance Lab. She holds a secondary appointment in the Directing Program at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale. She earned her BA in English ‘06 and an MA ‘11 and PhD ‘24 in American Studies at Yale. She has been a member of the arts faculty at Yale since 2006.

Email: emily.coates@yale.edu

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