Emma Quan Dewey (any pronouns) is a Bay Area-raised dancer, choreographer, and educator putting down roots in Chochenyo-speaking Ohlone lands (Oakland). Emma’s work grounds itself in dance as an imaginative, world-building act / as a ritual to move through the intimate ways identity, power structures, and history play out at the level of the body / as an offering to be in relationship with land, ancestors, and spirits. Ongoing creative inquiries center on transmuting the embodied afterlives of US empire in their Chinese and white lineage into more liberated, connected ways of being. Emma’s movement lineages include a BA in Dance & Anthropology from Bowdoin College, where she trained in improvisation and dance ethnography; qigong; and their performance and teaching work as a company artist with Dancing Earth Creations. Emma was the 2023 Emerging Artist in Residence at Shawl-Anderson Dance Center (SADC), and has shown work at FRESH Festival, Dance Mission Theater’s D.I.R.T. Festival, SADC, and the School for Contemporary Dance & Thought.

https://www.emmaquandewey.com/