EMILY DOBSON

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Emily is a dance artist based in the South West, she graduated  from Bretton Hall University in 2001 and now works nationally across the UK and Northern Ireland. She has toured nationally and internationally with Cscape Dance, Kneehigh Theatre, Assault Events and Attik Dance. Performance work has taken her from Battersea Arts Centre, the Spoleto Festival U.S.A and the Asylum with Kneehigh Theatre to village halls, clubs, gardens, city centres, beaches and speed boats. She has performed in and co-choreographed numerous outdoor site based productions across the South-West on land and sea, also working extensively delivering technique class, education and project based work for organisations including The Hall for Cornwall, Ulster University and TR2 (Theatre Royal, Plymouth).

She collaborates with musicians, photographers and filmmakers to create her independent work. Her dance for camera work has toured to Budapest and Russia as part of the Artkino Film Festival. She has recently choreographed Everywhen, a music video directed by Brett Harvey (o-region) for Bafta Award winning Australian singer songwriter Emily Barker and the Red Clay Halo released in July. Emily co-leads Freefall Dance, a company based in Falmouth that works with it’s partners Falmouth University and The Works to deliver high quality opportunities to train and perform contemporary dance. She has been an Associate Lecturer of Dance at Falmouth University for three years and is an Associate Artist of Cscape Dance.