Emily Cargill

Background

About Emily Cargill

Emily Cargill is the Founder and Artistic Director of Emily Cargill & Dancers. Her work has been presented at venues and festivals all across the East Coast, including the High Museum of Art, Art on the Atlanta Beltline, North Carolina Dance Festival, LadyfestCLT, Skwhirlhaus Theatre, Dogtown Dance Theatre’s Touring Artist Series, Emory University’s Performing Arts Studio, Dance Canvas’ Emerging Choreographer Initiative, New Grounds Dance Festival, Modern Atlanta Dance Festival, Detroit Dance City Festival, Boston Contemporary Dance Festival, NYC10 Dance Festival, Versatility Dance Festival, Charlotte Dance Festival, Moving the Margins/The Jessie, and the Women Arts Exchange. Emily has also been commissioned to set work by Staibdance, Jacksonville Dance Theatre, Kennesaw State University, Georgia College and State University, James Madison University, Washington and Lee University, Belmont Abbey College and Winthrop University. Emily is a 2023 recipient of the Community Foundation of Jacksonville’s Art Ventures Individual Artist Grant. This grant assisted in the creation process of her work, bone memory, which premiered at the Women Arts Exchange in April 2024. Emily was a founding member of the Atlanta-based modern dance company, Staibdance, as well as dancing in works by Gregory Catellier, Corian Ellisor, Kathleen Wessel and David Dorfman. Emily has her MFA in Dance Performance and Choreography from Florida State University and her BA in Dance from James Madison University. In 2011, Emily traveled to Sorrento, Italy with Staibdance, performing and teaching abroad during the two-week summer dance intensive. In 2013, Emily was a choreographer-in-residence at the Florida Dance Festival in Tampa, FL. In 2015, Emily was featured as a Small Plates Artist, a teaching residency sponsored by the Atlanta Ballet and Zoetic Dance Ensemble. In 2019, Emily was commissioned to create a new dance installation at the Mint Museum-Uptown Charlotte, as their featured artist for the city-wide Connect with Culture Day. Emily has taught modern, ballet and jazz technique, improvisation, dance history, and choreography courses at Winthrop University, Spelman College, Kennesaw State University and Georgia College and State University. Emily has also been on faculty at the Atlanta Ballet, Georgia Ballet, Douglas Anderson School of the Arts, Callanwolde Fine Arts Center, and the Performing Arts Center of Tallahassee. Emily is currently a part time professor of dance at Jacksonville University, teaching all levels of contemporary technique within the dance department.