Emily Wexler works as a choreographer and dancer. Her work is derived from memory, humor, darkness, hope, hostility, confusion, failure, fantasy, sorrow, fear, violence, sweetness, abuse, sincerity, and passion. She tries to untangle the world through dance. Her movement vernacular, motivation, determination, and perspective has been profoundly influenced through the practice of modern dance.
She has been supported for her choreography through various awards from academic, public, and private funding. She is very grateful. In 2008 she was honored with the ACDFA/Dance Magazine Award for Outstanding Choreography and in 2000 she was a recipient of the Gertude Claytor Award from the Academy of American Poets for a collection of her poems. This was a great surprise.
Her work has been seen abroad and more locally in venues such as the American Dance Festival, Movement Research at the Judson Church, The Knitting Factory, Center for Performance Research, The Center (LGBT Community Center), Draftworks at Danspace Project/St. Mark's Church, Joyce SoHo, The Flea, Chez Bushwick, Dixon Place, Galapagos, AUNTS, and The Paul Robeson House, among others.
As a performer she has worked with Asubtout, Rebecca Brooks, Kim Brandt, DCrum, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Lyndsey Karr, Sam Kim, Karinne Keithley, Jen McGinn, Ryan McNamara, Yvonne Meier, Katy Pyle, and Ann Liv Young.
In recent years she has extended her work through teaching and making with students at Hollins University, Dickinson College, University of Memphis, the American Dance Festival, University City Arts League, American College Dance Festival, and University of the Arts. Currently, she teaches Senior Citizens the love of drawing an arc through space at the Senior League of Flatbush and the Park Slope Senior Center. The Brooklyn Arts Council recently awarded her with a SPARC Grant to make a new dance with the Senior Citizens of the Grace Agard Harewood Senior Center in Bed Sty for Summer 2012. It's gonna be crazy.
Wexler challenges herself to work with people in a highly physical, poetic, and responsible capacity in order to discover the possibilities of deconstructing our known realities to find what and how we are. She intentionally does not organize her work/process through a company model, but chooses to work collectively with those that lend themselves to her ideas. By honoring the colloborative relationships with the artists involved, significance can be revealed through a continual and ever-shifting investigation of space, time, and imagination (dance, duh). This intention creates an opening for the audience to be able to relate to the work in an active and engaged manner. She is committed to dance as an art form that seeks to work towards social justice.
She was raised in New Jersey. She has a fraternal twin sister, older sister, and phenomenal parents.
She earned a BA and MFA in Dance from Hollins University.
if you're further interested with em's process go here:
www.emilywexlerdance.blogspot.com
She has been supported for her choreography through various awards from academic, public, and private funding. She is very grateful. In 2008 she was honored with the ACDFA/Dance Magazine Award for Outstanding Choreography and in 2000 she was a recipient of the Gertude Claytor Award from the Academy of American Poets for a collection of her poems. This was a great surprise.
Her work has been seen abroad and more locally in venues such as the American Dance Festival, Movement Research at the Judson Church, The Knitting Factory, Center for Performance Research, The Center (LGBT Community Center), Draftworks at Danspace Project/St. Mark's Church, Joyce SoHo, The Flea, Chez Bushwick, Dixon Place, Galapagos, AUNTS, and The Paul Robeson House, among others.
As a performer she has worked with Asubtout, Rebecca Brooks, Kim Brandt, DCrum, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Lyndsey Karr, Sam Kim, Karinne Keithley, Jen McGinn, Ryan McNamara, Yvonne Meier, Katy Pyle, and Ann Liv Young.
In recent years she has extended her work through teaching and making with students at Hollins University, Dickinson College, University of Memphis, the American Dance Festival, University City Arts League, American College Dance Festival, and University of the Arts. Currently, she teaches Senior Citizens the love of drawing an arc through space at the Senior League of Flatbush and the Park Slope Senior Center. The Brooklyn Arts Council recently awarded her with a SPARC Grant to make a new dance with the Senior Citizens of the Grace Agard Harewood Senior Center in Bed Sty for Summer 2012. It's gonna be crazy.
Wexler challenges herself to work with people in a highly physical, poetic, and responsible capacity in order to discover the possibilities of deconstructing our known realities to find what and how we are. She intentionally does not organize her work/process through a company model, but chooses to work collectively with those that lend themselves to her ideas. By honoring the colloborative relationships with the artists involved, significance can be revealed through a continual and ever-shifting investigation of space, time, and imagination (dance, duh). This intention creates an opening for the audience to be able to relate to the work in an active and engaged manner. She is committed to dance as an art form that seeks to work towards social justice.
She was raised in New Jersey. She has a fraternal twin sister, older sister, and phenomenal parents.
She earned a BA and MFA in Dance from Hollins University.
if you're further interested with em's process go here:
www.emilywexlerdance.blogspot.com
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