Emily Chamberlin Dance Collective (ECDC)

Artistic Director


Connecting and engaging communities around the world in Storytelling, Education, Dance and Multi-Disciplinary collaborations through dance performance on traditional and non-traditional stages.

“It takes two to speak the truth - one to speak and another to hear.”

- Henry David Thoreau

The Emily Chamberlin Dance Collective is a Multi-Disciplinary Collaborative Dance Company whose mission is to create immersive, engaging works depicting the intricate dynamics of human connection, celebrating community, joy, connection, empathy, and resiliency of the human spirit!

 

Recent Work

 

Emily Chamberlin and Marlon Martinez create a Bi-Coastal duet combining Modern Dance and Upright Bass. Composed by Marlon Martinez of Jazz Marlonius and Choreographed by Emily Chamberlin as part of New Work Series commissioned performance 2021.

2020 Virtual Stay-At-Home Pennsylvania FireFly Festival Premiere

This is a Virtual Firefly Interpretive Dance entitled, "Synchronicity". It was submitted to the PA Firefly Festival “Art After Dark” program sponsored by the Elk County Council for the Arts. 2020. Dancers; Janae Bonnen, Gabrielle Burgess.

My Fireflies Dance Theatre work was created in collaboration with Ibiyinka Femi Alao, Artist, Public speaker and Arts Ambassador for the United Nations. Inspired by his Scholastic winning Chidren’s Book, “Ibis Fireflies,”

My Fireflies Abrons Arts Center 2019

Higher Ground Dance Festival 2018

The Cirkus Theatre Project in partnership with Cirque De Soleil. 2014.