Emma R. Cohen

is a writer and dancer from Chicago. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Times Literary Supplement, Los Angeles Review of Books, and BOMB, among other outlets. As a performer she has worked with artists including Gillian Walsh, Neal Medlyn, and Ligia Lewis. She is a PhD candidate in English at Northwestern University.

Dance Portfolio

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Friday Night Lights, Gillian Walsh, Dia at Chelsea Park Soccer Field, 2024

Photos: Mollie McKinley

Holy Saturday, Neal Medlyn, The Kitchen at General Theological Seminary, 2024

Photos: Al Foote III

Wilderness, Gillian Walsh, Danspace Project, 2023

Photos: Amelia Golden

ASSEMBLY, GREYZONE, Paul Taylor Dance Studios, 2022

ASSEMBLY, GREYZONE, Oklahoma International Dance Festival, 2021

Photography by Maria Baranova for GREYZONE

TWILIGHT, Phoebe Berglund, Marsha P. Johnson Park, 2020

Deepfake, Tara Subkoff, The Hole for PERFORMA 19, 2019

Photo: Luis Corzo

Fame Notions, Gillian Walsh, Bennington College, 2019

Fame Notions, Gillian Walsh, Watermill Center, 2019

Sensation 1/This Interior, Ligia Lewis, The High Line, 2019

Ligia Lewis, Sensation 1/This Interior, 2019. A High Line Performance. On view July 23-25, 2019. Photo by Rowa Lee.

Fame Notions, Gillian Walsh, Performance Space New York, 2019

Photos: Paula Court

Scramble Repertory Workshop, Merce Cunningham Trust, 2018

A Poem in Seven Movements, Elena Bajo, EFA Project Space, 2018

and pools at the end of the world where the swallows dip their wings [film], Emma Cohen, 92nd Street Y Mobile Dance Film Festival, 2018

Pathways, Noam Gagnon, Performance Works, Vancouver, BC, 2018

Photos: Erik Zennström

there’s a place, Desi Rekrut, BLOOM Festival, Vancouver, BC, 2018

Photo: Erik Zennström

Performance Research Project [participant], directed by Lesley Telford, Vancouver, BC, 2017-2018

Photo: David Cooper

Running on Cargo