Meet Emily Culbreath

Emily (Lady Em) Culbreath began dancing professionally in 2015 after graduating with her BFA in Dance from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She began touring with Rennie Harris's Grassroots Project soon after and then with the renowned hip-hop theater company Rennie Harris Puremovement in 2018. She has since worked as Rehearsal Director and Principal Dancer for the company. Emily has shown her work at the "Illadelph" street dance festival, "The Come Together Festival" hosted by Koresh Dance, "Here and Now vol. II" sponsored by W.O.R.X, The San Francisco International Hip Hop Dance Festival, Summer Dance Forever's Theater Forever program (Amsterdam, NE), RADFest (Kalamazoo, MI), The Open Air Media Festival (Iowa City, IA) and as a guest choreographer at Franklin & Marshall College (PA) and Georgian Court University (NJ). 

She is currently an MFA candidate studying choreography at the University of Iowa. Emily has taught and guest lectured in various contexts, including Mark Morris Dance Group, New Visions for Public Schools, California State University, The Juilliard School, The Ailey School, Princeton University, and Rennie Harris University's street dance certification program. Emily held an adjunct faculty position at Franklin and Marshall College in the Spring of 2023 and co-founded her award-winning Hip Hop Theater organization, Snack Break Movement Arts, with her husband, Joshua Culbreath, in 2021. Emily's work "Plan A: Stories of Embodied Frontiers" was recently chosen as a national conference selection for the American College Dance Association National Conference in Washington, D.C.