Emily is a certified teacher of the AT for over 25 years and works with people of all ages and abilities, from high level athletes and dancers to Parkinson’s patients, and anyone in between who wants to improve their functioning. She is employed at the VA where she works with veterans with chronic pain. As a dancer, Emily trained traditionally in ballet and modern, as well as various forms of improvisation including Skinner Releasing Technique. She is the artistic director of Emily Faulkner Dance which has shown work nationally and internationally, and she performed in the Bessie Award winning “Shining” with Yvonne Meier. She’s served as a guest artist at Wesleyan University and has skied extensively with Erik Bendix and Christophe Bachman. Currently in graduate school for Motor Control and learning at Columbia University, Emily combines the transcendental feeling of moving freely with a scientific understanding of the neuromotor processes that underlie how we move and learn to move. She has taught at Movement Research for almost 15 years and regards her classes here to be the cusp of her teaching, where her expertise and creative drive converge.
