Emily Barasch is a queer choreographer, performer, intimacy coordinator, and educator based in Los Angeles, CA. Emily mobilizes choreography and performance to explore chronic illness, queerness, and intimacy. She manipulates repetitive physical and vocal gestures to build alternate logics for language, identity, and time as blueprints for the future. Emily has been awarded residencies from Atelier Real and Forum Dança (Lisbon, Portugal); Ponderosa Art Centre and PReS Residency (Germany); and the UC Riverside Department of Dance. Her work has been presented at Highways Performance Space, The Electric Lodge, and Human Resources (Los Angeles); Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Judson Memorial Church, and Eden’s Expressway (New York); The Gulbenkian Museum (Lisbon); and Stockholm Fringe Festival. She is a founding member of the Queer Dance working group at Dance Studies Association (DSA). She created and curates the quarterly performance program FIRST DRAFT, an evening of works-in-process for local Los Angeles based performance makers. Emily is currently the Intimacy Coordinator at Cal Arts for The Schools of Theater, Dance, and Film/TV/Video and an Adjunct Professor at UC Riverside’s Department of Dance. She holds a MFA in Choreography from UCLA.
