Writing

“Yvonne Rainer’s Archive.” TDR 65:4 (T252) December 2021.

“Weaving Apollo: Neoclassical Ballet and Female Authorship,” Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Ballet, eds. Kathrina Farrugia-Kriel andJill Nunes Jensen;. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.

“Breathing the Lens,” Peak Journal, 2019-2020 Season, edited by Claudia La Rocco.

Emily Coates and Sarah Demers, Physics and Dance. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT: 2019.

Script for A History of Light, an intermedia performance project created in collaboration with Josiah McElheny, which premiered at Danspace Project, November 2018.

Book review: “Soft is Fast: Simone Forti in the 1960s and After and Rhythm Field: The Dance of Molissa Fenley.” TDR/The Drama Review. Vol. 62, No. 3, Fall 2018, 191-194.

“Creeping Trio A.” Slow Dancing/Trio A. New York: Danspace Project, June 2017.

“The Poetics of Physics in Dance.” PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art.  Vol. 39, No. 2, May 2017 (PAJ 116): 7-21.

“Neoclassical Ballet in the Twenty-First Century.” Paris Opera Program. July 2016.

“Balanchine’s Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet.” Paris Opera Program. July 2016.

“What is an American Dance?: Origins, Innovations, Translations.” Paris Opera Exhibition Catalogue. May 2016.

Engagement Féminin: Women, Education, and Contemporary Dance in West Africa,” Huffington Post, 7 June 2014.

“Dance Between Performance and Image.” PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art. Vol. 36, No. 2, May 2014 (PAJ 107): 116-124.

Spectral Ballerinas: on a pedestal, written out of history,” Huffington Post, 2 February 2014.

Engagement Féminin: L’Équilibre and Contemporary Dance in West Africa.” Theater 2014, 44 (1), 36-55.

“Pina… are you there?” PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art. Vol. 35, No. 2,May 2013 (PAJ 104): 63–68.

“Moving Between, Among, In the Midst: Intercultural Kinesis,” Theater 42:1 (2012): 10 – 19.

“Souleymane Badolo in New York City.” PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art. Vol. 33, No. 1, January 2011 (PAJ 97): 39 – 50.

“Beyond the Visible: the Legacies of Merce Cunningham and Pina Bausch.” PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art. Vol. 32, No. 2, May 2010 (PAJ 95): 1–7.

“The Festival of International Dance at Yale,” Theater 40: 1 (2010).

Theater Issue on Postglobal Dance. Emily Coates and Joseph Roach, guest eds. Theater Magazine 40: 1 (2010).

Joseph Cermatori, Emily Coates, Kathryn Krier, Bronwen MacArthur, Angelica Randle, Joseph Roach, “Teaching African American Dance / History to a ‘Post-Racial’ Class: Yale’s Project O,” Theater Topics 19.1 (2009): 1 – 14.

Emily Coates, “Performance As Object, Method, and Pedagogy: The World Performance Project at Yale,” Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy XX: 1 (2009): 106 – 118.

Essays in Yale’s New Journal and Yale Daily News Magazine, 2004-2005

Featured appearances in Baryshnikov in Black and White (2002) and New York City Ballet Workout Book (1997).