Emily Dobson
Listed as: Actor/Performer, Dance Practitioner, Individual Artists
- Keywords:
- dance, cscape, performer, independent artist, collaboration
Emily is originally from the Midlands and began her training in Contemporary Dance graduating with a BA (Hons) from Bretton Hall University, Yorkshire in 2001. Emily has toured nationally and internationally with dance and theatre companies and works as an Education Worker and Freelance Dance Artist now based in Falmouth, Cornwall.
Productions include Don John by Kneehigh in association with the Royal Shakespeare Company which toured to the U.S.A for the Spoleto festival, South Carolina in 2009.
Emily has performed in Cscape productions for the past five years which have toured to hundreds of venues across the UK and includes work by Emma Rice, TC Howard and Fleur Darkin. She has also performed with Attik Dance and worked with Assault Events for ten years performing in five touring productions in the UK and Northern Ireland.
Other work includes: Education Worker, Freelance Dance Practitioner, Choreographer. Delivering workshops, technique training, residencies and youth projects.
Emily has worked on many site specific productions as a performer and choreographer including bars and clubs, beaches, gardens, buildings, mines and coasts with Motionhouse Dance Theatre, Gecko Physical Theatre, TaskForce, Cscape, Assault Events and even The Wildcats speed boat racing team...and ended up in one of the boats!
Emily is currently a performer and Associate Artist with Cscape Dance Company and is venturing into making and choreographing independent work.
Collaboration with film, music, photography and dance is the main focus of her work, recently developing solo work with musician and performer Patrycja Kujawska (Vincent Dance, Kneehigh) for live performance, Brett Harvey (o-region) with film work Displacement which screened as part of the Cornwall Film Festival and the Busho Film Festival and with Kevin Clifford, Devon based photographer.
Emily hopes to continue to perform and create new collaborative work, her newest venture is setting up Freefall Contemporary Dance Classes in Falmouth and hopefully learning some aerial work!
Key Projects
- Cscape Dance Company
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The brilliant Global Gardens Project at Trebah Gardens recently came to a end, but When The Shops Shut will be touring in Autumn featuring choreography by TC Howard, Sally Williams, Helen Tiplady and film work by Mark Jenkin.
- Assault Events
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Touring Productions include:
Shall We Dance (2002), The Quest (2003), The Fairies Tale (2006), Liaison (2008), Alibi (2008). Ongoing Education and residency work with the company - Assault Events are Company in Residence at Ulster University, Londonderry.
- Kneehigh
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Cscape toured as performers in Kneehigh's production of Don John and is currently working at the incredible Asylum - please see the link for a peak at some films and what it's all about...
www.youtube.com/user/WeAreKneehigh#p/a/u/2/701XiELY17s
- Kevin Clifford Photography
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Ongoing work with Kevin Clifford as a dancer includes a fashion shoot for Devon Today magazine. DanceScapes, a collection of images commissioned by DSW and independent film and photography collaborations for live performance.
- Project Freefall
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Project Freefall is an independent hub of artists, curated by myself that create new work specifically based around the still and moving image. The collaborating artists are dancers, musicians, filmmakers and photographers from across the South West. Project Freefall is part of my work as a Dance Artist, a way to collect information about projects and events that I'm involved in whether performing and touring with companies, choreographing for live performances and film or following dance classes and workshops that I'm involved in.