Emily Jane Steele is a Czech-British dancer and choreographer who splits her work between Antwerp and Prague. She explores relationships between the body and materials, as well as the connections between visual, physical, and sonic layers. Her choreographic practice ranges from dance, and performance to installation and is rooted in physical research, improvisation, and work with abstraction. Through her projects, she creates situations that stimulate curiosity and open up space for an intensive multi-layered sensory experience.
In the project Metal on Metal, she collaborates with the Belgian composer Ali Debie, who focuses on sound and musical structure in a performative context, and with Bulgarian costume designer Moryana Filipova, who specializes in working with metal and jewellery.
Emily studied at the Duncan Centre Conservatory in Prague and recently graduated from the Royal Conservatoire in Antwerp, Belgium. She is a member of the newly formed collective Draft 8, which brings together eight international performers with a shared interest in collective work with their bodies.
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