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Emily Dobson

Associate Lecturer in Dance & Choreography

Emily (Dobson) Alden is a dancer and choreographer who works across dance and theatre, live and digital formats and communities. Originally from the Midlands, Emily trained in Contemporary Dance at Bretton Hall College of Arts in Yorkshire and is now based in Cornwall. 

Emily has worked extensively as a dancer in touring and site based productions with companies including WildWorks, Rosemary Lee, Cscape, Kneehigh & Simon Birch working under the direction of Emma Rice, Yael Flexer & Agnieszka Blonksa. Her dance films created with filmmaker Brett Harvey (Kneehigh, o-region, Lucasfilm) have been screened worldwide. In 2016 she was awarded Arts Council and British Council funding for an independent development project to work across the UK and mainland Europe with Theo Clinkard, Maxine Doyle and train in the movement language Gaga. She is currently creating new interdisciplinary performance work In My Head exploring everyday sound and hearing loss.

Emily has been an Associate Lecturer at Falmouth University since 2010, a part-time member of staff on the Dance and Choreography course for two of those years from 2014 to 2016 with roles including module management, student supervision, assessment and extensive delivery of practical modules and contemporary technique classes across all year groups.

  • www.emilyalden.com
Emily Alden staff profile
EmailE.Dobson@falmouth.ac.uk
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  • Qualifications
  • Research Interests
  • Research Outputs
  • Teaching
  • Policy engagement within Cornwall
  • Professional engagement

    Qualifications

    Qualifications

    YearQualificationAwarding body
    2012
    PGCHE
    Falmouth University
    2001
    BA (Hons) Contemporary Dance
    Bretton Hall College of Arts

    Honours and awards

    YearDescription
    2019

    Associate Artist, Hall for Cornwall

    Membership of external committees

    • People Dancing
    • Equity

    Research Interests

    Research interests and expertise

    Training the Technical, Imaginative & Expressive Dancer
    Multidisciplinary Collaboration
    Performance
    Dance for Camera
    Movement Direction for Film & Theatre
    Dance Photography

    Research Outputs

    Events

    YearDescription
    2019

    Successful Project Grant from Arts Council England to create new performance work 'In My Head' for touring in 2020/21, supported by Hall for Cornwall, Kneehigh Theatre and AMATA (Falmouth University).

    2019

    Curator of Hall for Cornwall Master Workshop #12 Programme 2019 with local, national and international artists delivering technical and devising workshops as CPD. For professional, undergraduate and experienced dancers, practitioners and choreographers.

    2018

    (DYCP) Arts Council England. Research and Development into multidisciplinary performance work exploring everyday sound and hearing loss with sound designer.

    2019

    Immersive Imaginations Workshop Series. An evolving series of workshops, classes & intensives led by Emily as part of her physical research as dancer & choreographer. A way to develop thinking, creative, expressive & technically driven dancers. A testing ground for Emily’s choreographic ideas exploring the interplay between set & improvised movement structures, working physically with quality & sensation, incorporating writing techniques.

    2016

    Co-producer of the Freefall Summer Intensive, annually from 2010 - 2016. Established the partnership relationship between Freefall and Falmouth University.

    2014

    Established and ran the Freefall FUEL summer project (2013/14) working with young dancers from across Cornwall at AMATA as part of the University's outreach programme of activities.

    2012

    Lead artist establishing a dance and art platform On The Wire (2012/13). Bringing together a film screening of international dance for camera works in conjunction with Cornwall Film Festival, a live platform of dance work and exhibition of art work and photography including commissioning Steve Tanner to create the photo series The Smoke House, supported by FEAST.

    Externally funded research grants information

    Year startingYear endingProject titleFunderCurrencyValueCollaboratorsHESA Category
    2019
    2019
    In My Head - Creation of new work
    Arts Council England
    No dataNo dataNo dataNo data
    2018
    2019
    (DYCP) Research - New Collaboration
    Arts Council England
    No dataNo dataNo dataNo data
    2017
    2017
    Artistic Immersion & Skills Development Project
    Arts Council England
    No dataNo dataNo dataNo data
    2017
    2017
    Artistic Immersion & Skills Development Project
    British Council
    No dataNo dataNo dataNo data

    Teaching

    Areas of teaching

    • Bodywork
    • Choreography
    • Contemporary Techniques
    • Devising
    • Performing Skills

    Courses taught

    • BA(Hons) Dance & Choreography

    CPD delivered

    Immersive imaginationsworkshop series for dancers, choreographers and practitioners. 
    On-going physical and choreographic research.

    Policy engagement within Cornwall

    Engagement with organisations which contribute to the development of educational, cultural or socio-economic policies in Cornwal

    Hall for Cornwall (Associate Artist & Curator of the Master Workshop #12 Programme)
    FEAST Cornwall

    Professional engagement

    Independent professional practice

    Please see website www.emilyalden.com

    Professional/scholarly development

    Course: 
    Gaga Language, week intensive, Belgium
    Year of completion: 
    2017
    Course: 
    Maxine Doyle/Punchdrunk, Approaches to Site Work, London
    Year of completion: 
    2017
    Course: 
    Bryony Kimmings; Artist's Workshop, London
    Year of completion: 
    2017
    Course: 
    ImpulsTanz International Festival of Dance; The Playful Body with Lisa Aris, Vienna
    Year of completion: 
    2015

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