2019
March 21-24 From the Horse’s Mouth
14th Street Y Theater, New York, NY
February 7 Book Launch at Wright Laboratory
Yale University, New Haven, CT
January 17 Open Reading for Physics and Dance (Yale University Press), hosted by Bill T. Jones
New York Live Arts, New York, NY
2018
November 27 Wendy Lesser on Jerome Robbins: A Conversation with Emily Coates, Kay Mazzo, and Edward Villella
Baryshnikov Arts Center, New York, NY
November 8, 9, 10 Shared Evening: Emily Coates & Josiah McElheny (A History of Light) / Emmanuele Phuon (Bits & Pieces: Choreographic Donations)
Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church, New York, NY
September 12 – 20 Early Works by Yvonne Rainer
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
August 10 Guest speaker, “Science in Motion,” Science Friday, hosted by Ira Flatow
National Public Radio
March 17 Incarnations
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
January 22 Yale Alumni in Dance: A Panel Discussion, Part 1
Center for Collaborative Arts and Media, Yale University
2017
December 10 – 21 European Tour with Yvonne Rainer
Marseille, Barcelona, Lisbon
December 2 Premiere of Meditation on CP-1
William Eckhardt Research Center atrium, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
October – December Guest artist, Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
September 28th “Einstein’s Happiest Dance: From dance to physics and physics to dance.” Guest speaker, Yale Quantum Institute
Whitney Humanities Center, New Haven, CT
September 15 & 16 Dancing with Yoshiko Chuma/Jodi Melnick in Prismatic Park
Madison Square Park, New York, NY
July 24 – August 4 Development process with Yvonne Rainer
Gibney Dance Center, New York, NY
June 23 – July 1 Featured performer in Slow Dancing/Trio A, by David Michalek and Yvonne Rainer
Danspace Project, New York, NY
April 20 Lunch talk at the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
March 16 – 18 Premiere of Incarnations
Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church, New York, NY
January 3 – 12 Rehearsal at Baryshnikov Arts Center
New York, NY
2016
October – December Fellowship at The Center for Ballet and the Arts
New York University, New York, NY
September 25 – October 2 Artist Residency at Kaatsbaan International Dance Center
Tivoli, NY
June 21 – 25 Choreographer for The Square Root of Three Sisters, Dmitry Krymov Lab and Yale School of Drama
International Festival of Arts and Ideas, New Haven, CT
June 2 – 4 Performances of Yvonne Rainer’s The Concept of Dust: Continuous Project Altered Annually
The Kitchen, New York, NY
May 20 Plenary Session, Contemporary Ballet: Exchanges, Connections, and Directions, Society for Dance History Scholars
Center for Ballet and the Arts, New York, NY
April 28 Food for Thought, curated by Iréne Hultman, Danspace Project
St. Mark’s Church, New York, NY
2015
November 30 Inspired Collaborations, presented by Guggenheim Works and Process
Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
November 15 Incarnations, created by Emily Coates
Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT
October 25 Performance of Yvonne Rainer’s The Concept of Dust, or How do you look when there’s nothing left to move? (2015)
Musée de Louvre, Paris, France
October 15 Public conversation with Uliana Lopatkina
Morse Recital Hall, Yale University, New Haven, CT
March 19 – 21 Participating artist, Danspace Platform 2015: Dancers, Buildings and People in the Streets
Danspace Project, St. Mark’s Church, New York, NY
February 3 Guest artist, The Embodied Cognition Workshop: Dance and Physics
Columbia University, New York, NY
January 16 – 19 Artist residency at Bard College
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
2014
December 11 “The Potential Poetics of Physics and Dance,” co-lecture with Sarah Demers
The University Seminar: Arts and Science
Columbia University, New York, NY
November 20 University of Rochester: “The Potential Poetics of Physics and Dance”
Co-led workshop and lecture with Sarah Demers
Rochester, NY
November 13 & 14 Artist residency at Baryshnikov Arts Center
New York, NY
October 3-25 Arcadia, by Tom Stoppard. Directed by James Bundy. (Choreographer)
Yale Repertory Theater 2014-2015 season
University Theater, New Haven, CT
October 3 & 4 Performances of Yvonne Rainer & Group
Sponsored by the Getty Research Institute
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
September 12 Moderator, “Interdisciplinary Contexts of Slow Dancing,” panel discussion
Sponsored by the Institute of Sacred Music
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
July 14 – July 31 Yvonne Rainer residency for the development of her newest work, The Concept of Dust, or How to look when there’s nothing left to move.
Gibney Dance Center, New York, NY
June 28 – July 12 Guest artist and mentor for Engagement Féminin, an initiative that offers contemporary dance training for women from across West Africa.
Sponsored by Compagnie Auguste-Bienvenue, funded by the New York Live Arts Suitcase Fund
Centre de Développement Chorégraphique/La Termitière, Ougadougou, Burkina Faso
June 18 & 20 Moderator, two post-show talkbacks following Reggie Wilson’s Moses(es).
International Festival of Arts and Ideas, University Theater, New Haven, CT
May 24 & 31 Co-lecture with Sarah Demers, “Physics and Dance,” Yale Alumni Association-Yale College Reunion Lecture Series. Yale University, New Haven, CT
April 6 The Soldier’s Tale, Co-produced by Yale School of Music and Yale School of Drama.
Choreographer; with musical direction by David Shifrin and stage direction by Liz Diamond.
Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, New York, NY
April 1 The Soldier’s Tale, Co-produced by Yale School of Music and Yale School of Drama.
Choreographer; with musical direction by David Shifrin and stage direction by Liz Diamond.
Sprague Hall, Yale University, New Haven, CT
March 29 “Potential Poetics,” TEDx Yale 2014 joint-presentation with Sarah Demers
Yale Repertory Theatre, Yale University, New Haven, CT
March 3 Physics Club: “Physics, Dance, and the Higgs at Yale,” joint-lecture with Sarah Demers
Colloquium sponsored by the Department of Physics at Yale with Dance Studies/Theater Studies and the Franke Program for Science and the Humanities
Yale University, New Haven, CT
February 7 Dreams what? created and performed with French horn player Will Orzo
An evening hosted by Collective Consciousness Theater.
New Haven, CT
January 9 & 12 Yvonne Rainer’s Assisted Living: Do You Have Any Money?
Focus Dance Festival, Joyce Theater, New York, NY