Emily Coates Email & Phone Number

A dancer, choreographer, and writer, Emily Coates has performed internationallywith New York City Ballet, Mikhail Baryshnikov’s White Oak Dance Project,Twyla Tharp, and Yvonne Rainer. Repertory highlights include three duets withBaryshnikov, in works by Erick Hawkins, Mark Morris, and Karole Armitage,and the span of Rainer’s work, from 1961 to the present. Her choreographic workhas been commissioned and presented by Baryshnikov Arts Center (2010),Carnegie Hall (2014, 2018), Danspace Project (2015, 2017, 2018), Works & Processat the Guggenheim (2016), University of Chicago (2017), Yale University ArtGallery (2018), Wadsworth Atheneum (2018), and Performa (2009, 2019),among other venues. Her close collaborators include Lacina Coulibaly,Sarah Demers, Liz Diamond, Josiah McElheny, Will Orzo, Emmanuèle Phuon,and Yvonne Rainer. Awards and fellowships include the School of AmericanBallet’s Mae L. Wein Award for Outstanding Promise; Baryshnikov ArtsCenter’s Martha Duffy Memorial Fellowship; Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grantfor the Public Understanding of Science, Technology, and Economics; a 2016Fellowship, Center for Ballet and the Arts; and a 2019 Dance Research Fellowship,Jerome Robbins Dance Division, New York Public Library for the PerformingArts. She is associate professor at Yale University, where she createdthe dance studies curriculum. With physicist Sarah Demers, she is co-authorof Physics and Dance (Yale University Press 2018).