Emily Barasch is a choreographer, educator, intimacy coordinator, and curator based in Los Angeles. She engages with community building and performance making as interrelated political activation strategies, positioning choreography as both a survival strategy and a method for change. Her work is an exercise in communal resiliency, centering bodies and their inter-relational capacities to imagine queer, anti-capitalist futures that resist and transform dominant logics of fixed identity and linear time. Through durational scores and the manipulation of repetitive physical gestures and vocal utterances, she generates alternative frameworks for language, identity, and time, offering blueprints for the future. Emily has received support and residencies from Atelier Real and Forum Dança in Lisbon, Portugal, Ponderosa Art Centre and the PReS Residency in Germany. Her choreography has been presented at Highways Performance Space, The Electric Lodge, Human Resources , Pieter Performance Space,  The Judson Memorial Church, Kestrels,  The Gulbenkian

Museum in Lisbon, Portugal, The Stockholm Fringe Festival, and Halle 2 in Kassel, Germany. She has received residency and funding support from The Foundation for Contemporary Arts, UC Riverside, Forum Dança (Lisbon, PT),  Atelier Real (Lisbon, PT),  Ponderosa (Germany), and Performance Research Studies (Kassel, Germany). She holds an MFA in Choreography from UCLA. She is currently the Intimacy Director and Educator at Cal Arts and a lecturer at UC Riverside in the Department of Dance. She founded and curates the quarterly work- in-progress series, First Draft, in Los Angeles.

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