Emilie Barton is a dance practitioner, facilitator and contemporary dance artist. Her own practices predominately focus on improvisation, voice, embodiment, storytelling, imagination, and play. Emilie strives to empower others, champion the arts, and tell honest stories through dance and theatre.
Based in Dorset and Eastleigh
The Call
Choreographed and Performed by Emilie Barton.
The Call is a solo Dance Theatre performance that explores the raw human nature we have inside all of us that often gets suppressed by day-to-day life in western society.
The piece presents itself as an abstract telling of a story with voice, movement and dance. Ultimately a transformation, myths such as ‘La Loba’, a woman who collects bones to raise wolves from the dead are explored. Transcendence, wolf and moon storytelling lay at the core of the piece.
Emilie initially developed The Call at The Dance Research Studio, London (2017-18) and as a Visiting Artist at Pavilion Dance South West (2019 & 2020) alongside being accepted to take part in their Young Choreographers South West Programme & residencies (2018-20).
As a work in progress, The Call was accepted to perform in Motus Dance’s performance platform, ADJUSTEMTNS 1118 in November 2019. In 2022, Emilie was awarded a Dorset Performance Makers Bursary (from Activate Performing Arts) of £500 to go towards development. Along with a residency space at Lighthouse’s ‘Sanctuary’ scheme for artists.
Most recently, The Call was accepted to perform in Resolution Festival 2023 at The Place, London on Friday 26th May.
Previous Work
Following her graduation from Roehampton University with a BA Hons in Dance Studies (2015), Emilie launched her career in the dance sector performing in various works with choreographer Alicia Kidman (2014-2016) and exploring somatic and embodied practices. Emilie has been a member of Coevo Adult Dance Company (2015-2022), choreographed for the Poole Passion Project (March 2018), led sessions with Dorset Youth Dance and performed in ‘TRANSMISSIONS’, an exhibition piece by Sian Hutchings & Richard Waring, on the Antony Caro ‘Sea Music’ Sculpture. After being selected for ‘The Speaking Dancer: Interdisciplinary Performance Training’, London (2017-2018) Emilie turned towards choreographing her own solo performance project alongside launching Dancing Free, her embodied movement classes.
Most recently, Emilie was thrilled to have been accepted as one of the 16 dance artists for Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures Overture Programme (2021-2022).
