emma saunders
director / performer / choreographer
Above left: ALL THAT I AM RIGHT NOW - made in collaboration with FERAS SHAHEEN (videographer), FELICITY CASTAGNA (writer) and EMMA SAUNDERS with the WE ARE HERE Company. All company images by Dom O'Donnell 💪
projects
WE ARE HERE Company
Hi fi dance in lo fi ways
The WE ARE HERE Company is a professional development platform and dynamic community of powerful performers who are keen to research, process, make, discuss, disrupt and perform new kinds of dance work made in collaboration with and lead by Emma Saunders.
We are currently hosted by FORM Dance Projects who provide us with 4hrs of weekly in kind rehearsal space 🙏
Image Credit: Dom O'Donnell, 2020
ENCOUNTER SYDNEY
MAY 18-21
4.30pm FREE
SOH forecourt
other projects
Emma Saunders is an award winning “formidable” (Realtime, 2010) Australian dance artist who works as a director, choreographer, dancer, educator, dance curator and producer. Read More..
Sydney-based dance trio co-founded by Jane McKernan, Elizabeth Ryan and Emma Saunders.Emma co founded the award-winning Sydney based trio, The Fondue Set, alongside Jane McKernan and Elizabeth Ryan.
Nominated for an Australian Dance Award, ENCOUNTER is a large scale outdoor site specific work of joy in Prince Alfred Park, Parramatta (tagged #bestofthefest by CREATE NSW) and for the Four Winds Festival, Bermagui. Directed by Emma Saunders, ENCOUNTER involves a 52 piece live orchestra (WSYO), 16 dancers – 8 dancers from Western Sydney and 8 dancers from Fling Physical Theatre, an original 1hr composition by composers Jodi Phyllis (The Clouds) and Amanda Brown (The Go-Betweens), Miles Franklin nominee writer Felicity Castagna, and slam poet Pola Fanous. With a cast of 16 dancers and 48 musicians, in collaboration with award-winning artists, composers Amanda Brown (The Go-Betweens) and Jodi Phillis (The Clouds), writer Felicity Castagna, conductor James Pensini, and associate artist Rob McCredie, ENCOUNTER invites you to celebrate the indomitable spirit of youth and the world they find themselves in.
ENCOUNTER AND ENCOUNTER SOUTH were originally commissioned and produced by FORM Dance Projects, supported by Sydney Youth Orchestras and FLING Physical Theatre, for presentation in Four Winds SPRING Festival 2019 and Sydney Festival 2020.