E M M A M O R R I S O N
Emma is a Nashville native, who began her training at the Franklin School of Performing Arts in Franklin, TN.
She began dancing with New Dialect in 2013, and has since worked with, and performed the works of Banning Bouldin, Peter Chu, Alex Ketley, Bryan Arias, Yin Yue, Belinda McGuire, Joy Davis, and Roy Assaf.
Along with being a dancer in New Dialect, Emma has assisted Banning Bouldin in creative processes for Salt Contemporary Dance, Groudworks Dance Theater, Springboard Danse Montreal, and The Julliard School Summer Intensive. She has led masterclasses at Belmont University, Salt Contemporary Dance, New Dialect Summer Intensives, and Groundworks Dance Theater. She is now leading the Contemporary program at Metro Parks Dance in Nashville.
Her most recent choreographic ventures have been in the contemporary opera scene, premiering Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus in Fall of 2019, and she is currently developing a multi-media collaboration inspired by the Dichterliebe song cycle by Robert Schumann, to be premiered in spring of 2020.
photo: Andrea Behrends