2022
October 5-8 Premiere of Hellzapoppin’: What About the Bees?, choreographed by Yvonne Rainer. New York Live Arts, New York, NY
July 29 & 30 Premiere of We, created by Emily Coates and Emmanuèle Phuon
Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH
July 17 – 31 Artist-in-Residence, Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH
June 28 & July 13 Guest lecture for Yale Young Global Scholars
March 19-25 Artist-in-Residence, Quick Center for the Arts
Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT
March 18 Guest on State of the ARTS, WPKN
February 28 “Notes on Loie Fuller and Agnes de Mille Photographs, by Emily Coates and Brian Seibert,” Mondays at the Beinecke, Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT
2021
December 8 Richard Schechner in conversation with Emily Coates and Amelia Jones
produced by TDR and Cambridge University Press
October 30 STALK: Performa 21 commission for Ericka Beckman, choreography by Emily Coates
Pier 3 Brooklyn Bridge Park, Brooklyn, NY
July 23 8 pm Big Move: performance demonstration with astronomer Elisabeth Newton, with direction by Ain Gordon and musical accompaniment by Taylor Ho Bynum
Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH
July 21 7 pm Work-in-progress screening of “Dancing in the Invisible Universe,” directed by Emily Coates
Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH
July 16 – 25 Residency at Dartmouth College, Hopkins Center for the Arts for the development of new work
Hanover, NH
July – December Short-term research fellowship, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center
New York, NY
July 9 & 22 “Dance and the Multiverse,” guest lecture for Yale Young Global Scholars
March 4 Emily Coates and Emmanuèle Phuon, “The Creative Process”
Quick Center for the Arts, Fairfield University
February 18 Transmissions: Nick Mauss in conversation with Hilton Als, Emily Coates, and Marci Kwon
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center
February 11 Convergence: Dancing the Poetics of Science, by Emily Coates and Emmanuèle Phuon
Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth
2020
October 17 Outdoor performances of Yvonne Rainer’s “Diagonal” for TITAN
kurimanzutto, New York, NY
July 9 & 22 “Dancing in the Multiverse,” Guest lecture for Yale Young Global Scholars
February 22 PEAK Performances featured guest in post-performance conversation, with Janet Eilber and Richard Alston
Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ
January 24 “Reinventing the Monkey Character,” A Symposium of Moving History, sponsored by the Jerome Robbins Dance Division, Dance Research Fellowship
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, New York, NY
2019
November 24 “Afterlives, Or A History of Light Part 2,” new commission choreographed for the Columbia Ballet Collaborative Fall Season
Ailey Citigroup Theater, New York, NY
November 15-17 “Parts of Some Sextets Redux: 1965/2019”: a collaboration with Yvonne Rainer to revive her 1965 dance, commissioned by Performa 2019
Gelsey Kirkland Arts Center, New York, NY
November 1 Schlemmer Loops. Director/choreographer of an original interpretation of Schlemmer’s Bauhaus dances, commissioned by Performa 2019
SIR STAGE 37, New York, NY
October 5-6 Yvonne Rainer & Group @ the Remai Modern
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
July 20 PillowTalk: Physics and Dance
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival
Beckett, MA
July 9 Time Travels in Physics and Dance, with Emily Coates and Sarah Demers
Presented by Saratoga Performing Arts Center and Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College
Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY
July 2019 – January 2020 Dance Research Fellow, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
New York, NY
June 20 – July 21 Max Makes a Million, (choreographer), based on the book by Maira Kalman, adapted and directed by Liz Diamond
Alliance Theater, Atlanta, GA
May 13 Smart Talks: Physics and Dance Book Reading
Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ
May 13 Guest talk: “The Work of an Artist-in-Residence”
Wright Laboratory, Yale University, New Haven, CT
April 25 Guest Lecturer, “Dance Research: From Art to Physics and Beyond”
School for Performing Arts, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, Toluca, Mexico
April 10 Featured guest on Constant Wonder, BYU Radio
April 7 Featured speaker, TEDx NYU 2019: Re-Vision
New York University, New York, NY
March 21-24 From the Horse’s Mouth
14th Street Y Theater, New York, NY
February 7 Book Launch at Wright Laboratory
Yale University, New Haven, CT
January 17 Open Reading for Physics and Dance (Yale University Press), hosted by Bill T. Jones
New York Live Arts, New York, NY
2018
November 27 Wendy Lesser on Jerome Robbins: A Conversation with Emily Coates, Kay Mazzo, and Edward Villella
Baryshnikov Arts Center, New York, NY
November 8, 9, 10 Shared Evening: Emily Coates & Josiah McElheny (A History of Light) / Emmanuele Phuon (Bits & Pieces: Choreographic Donations)
Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church, New York, NY
September 12 – 20 “Early Works by Yvonne Rainer,” performances for Judson Dance Theater: The Work is Never Done, MOMA exhibition, September 16, 2018-February 3, 2019
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
August 10 Guest speaker, “Science in Motion,” Science Friday, hosted by Ira Flatow
National Public Radio
March 17 Incarnations
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
January 22 Yale Alumni in Dance: A Panel Discussion, Part 1
Center for Collaborative Arts and Media, Yale University
2017
December 10 – 21 European Tour with Yvonne Rainer
Marseille, Barcelona, Lisbon
December 2 Premiere of Meditation on CP-1
William Eckhardt Research Center atrium, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
October – December Guest artist, Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
September 28th “Einstein’s Happiest Dance: From dance to physics and physics to dance.” Guest speaker, Yale Quantum Institute
Whitney Humanities Center, New Haven, CT
September 15 & 16 Dancing with Yoshiko Chuma/Jodi Melnick in Prismatic Park
Madison Square Park, New York, NY
July 24 – August 4 Development process with Yvonne Rainer
Gibney Dance Center, New York, NY
June 23 – July 1 Featured performer in Slow Dancing/Trio A, by David Michalek and Yvonne Rainer
Danspace Project, New York, NY
April 20 Lunch talk at the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
March 16 – 18 Premiere of Incarnations
Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church, New York, NY
January 3 – 12 Rehearsal at Baryshnikov Arts Center
New York, NY
2016
October – December Fellowship at The Center for Ballet and the Arts
New York University, New York, NY
September 25 – October 2 Artist Residency at Kaatsbaan International Dance Center
Tivoli, NY
June 21 – 25 Choreographer for The Square Root of Three Sisters, Dmitry Krymov Lab and Yale School of Drama
International Festival of Arts and Ideas, New Haven, CT
June 2 – 4 Performances of Yvonne Rainer’s The Concept of Dust: Continuous Project Altered Annually
The Kitchen, New York, NY
May 20 Plenary Session, Contemporary Ballet: Exchanges, Connections, and Directions, Society for Dance History Scholars
Center for Ballet and the Arts, New York, NY
April 28 Food for Thought, curated by Iréne Hultman, Danspace Project
St. Mark’s Church, New York, NY
2015
November 30 Inspired Collaborations, presented by Guggenheim Works and Process
Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
November 15 Incarnations, created by Emily Coates
Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT
October 25 Performance of Yvonne Rainer’s The Concept of Dust, or How do you look when there’s nothing left to move? (2015)
Musée de Louvre, Paris, France
October 15 Public conversation with Uliana Lopatkina
Morse Recital Hall, Yale University, New Haven, CT
March 19 – 21 Participating artist, Danspace Platform 2015: Dancers, Buildings and People in the Streets
Danspace Project, St. Mark’s Church, New York, NY
February 3 Guest artist, The Embodied Cognition Workshop: Dance and Physics
Columbia University, New York, NY
January 16 – 19 Artist residency at Bard College
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
2014
December 11 “The Potential Poetics of Physics and Dance,” co-lecture with Sarah Demers
The University Seminar: Arts and Science
Columbia University, New York, NY
November 20 University of Rochester: “The Potential Poetics of Physics and Dance”
Co-led workshop and lecture with Sarah Demers
Rochester, NY
November 13 & 14 Artist residency at Baryshnikov Arts Center
New York, NY
October 3-25 Arcadia, by Tom Stoppard. Directed by James Bundy. (Choreographer)
Yale Repertory Theater 2014-2015 season
University Theater, New Haven, CT
October 3 & 4 Performances of Yvonne Rainer & Group
Sponsored by the Getty Research Institute
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
September 12 Moderator, “Interdisciplinary Contexts of Slow Dancing,” panel discussion
Sponsored by the Institute of Sacred Music
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
July 14 – July 31 Yvonne Rainer residency for the development of her newest work, The Concept of Dust, or How to look when there’s nothing left to move.
Gibney Dance Center, New York, NY
June 28 – July 12 Guest artist and mentor for Engagement Féminin, an initiative that offers contemporary dance training for women from across West Africa.
Sponsored by Compagnie Auguste-Bienvenue, funded by the New York Live Arts Suitcase Fund
Centre de Développement Chorégraphique/La Termitière, Ougadougou, Burkina Faso
June 18 & 20 Moderator, two post-show talkbacks following Reggie Wilson’s Moses(es).
International Festival of Arts and Ideas, University Theater, New Haven, CT
May 24 & 31 Co-lecture with Sarah Demers, “Physics and Dance,” Yale Alumni Association-Yale College Reunion Lecture Series. Yale University, New Haven, CT
April 6 The Soldier’s Tale, Co-produced by Yale School of Music and Yale School of Drama.
Choreographer; with musical direction by David Shifrin and stage direction by Liz Diamond.
Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, New York, NY
April 1 The Soldier’s Tale, Co-produced by Yale School of Music and Yale School of Drama.
Choreographer; with musical direction by David Shifrin and stage direction by Liz Diamond.
Sprague Hall, Yale University, New Haven, CT
March 29 “Potential Poetics,” TEDx Yale 2014 joint-presentation with Sarah Demers
Yale Repertory Theatre, Yale University, New Haven, CT
March 3 Physics Club: “Physics, Dance, and the Higgs at Yale,” joint-lecture with Sarah Demers
Colloquium sponsored by the Department of Physics at Yale with Dance Studies/Theater Studies and the Franke Program for Science and the Humanities
Yale University, New Haven, CT
February 7 Dreams what? created and performed with French horn player Will Orzo
An evening hosted by Collective Consciousness Theater.
New Haven, CT
January 9 & 12 Yvonne Rainer’s Assisted Living: Do You Have Any Money?
Focus Dance Festival, Joyce Theater, New York, NY