Emily Jenkins is an established, international dance artist with an embedded social and wellbeing practice. She designs, implements and artistically leads life enhancing dance initiatives.
Emily has worked in dance for over fifteen years, and in that time has created and delivered countless opportunities for dance engagement with both cultural and health organisations. Her practice fosters unity, and is centred around release, reciprocity and joy.
In 2016 Emily founded Move Dance Feel, a company offering dance to women living with and beyond cancer, and works closely with cancer support services to incorporate dance into their care programmes. As part of Move Dance Feel’s advocacy work and the training programmes they provide Emily is spearheading an international #danceincancercare movement, creating a network of artists, researchers, healthcare professionals and students operating in this space.
With a particular interest in addressing inequality through dance Emily created Women Who Dance in 2023, as a way of providing safe and creative spaces for all women. The initiative aims to reduce stress and loneliness among women, foster fear rebellion, and encourage physical and mental expansion.
Since 2019 Emily has served as a committee member for the International Association for Dance Medicine and Science, and in 2020 she was selected as Churchill Fellow. In 2021 she won a National Lottery Art, Culture and Film Award, and Positive News magazine named her as one of ‘10 ordinary people who made 2021 extraordinary’. Additionally, she currently serves as a board member for Akademi South Asian dance company.
Emily graduated with a BA (Hons) degree in Performing Arts, Culture and Communication from Oxford Brookes University, receiving the Keith Andrews prize for excellence in Performing Arts. Following which she gained a Postgraduate Diploma in Community Dance and a Masters degree in Creative Practice from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. She is also a qualified vinyasa yoga teacher.
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