EMMA FISHWICK
Artist . Choreographer

About

Emma Fishwick

Photos by Sarah Walker 2017

EMMA is an artist whose work takes numerous forms. Her practice spans dance, visual-arts and the written word. Based in Perth, Emma graduated from WAAPA Honours (Dance) program LINK in 2010 and has since engaged in multiple projects in Sydney, Berlin, Bilbao, Perth and most recently at Next Wave (2016) and Dance Massive (2017) in Melbourne. She has also undertaken a residency at Bundanon Trust NSW, a SEED residency in WA and has commenced a Master of Arts (Choreography) at WAAPA which includes working with LINK Dance Company as a guest artist. In 2018, Emma has been awarded the role as an Associate Artist and will be working with Co3 Australia as a choreographic assistant, along with production management and videography.

I am: an enthusiast, re-arranger, documenter, wordsmith, choreographer, somewhere between me and a composed version of myself. My multifaceted practice spans dance, written word and visual documentation (fine line drawing, sculpture, film and photography). To date, my work has been dictated my choreographic practice, however I have begun to search for a process that enables an equal dialogue between each of my interests. Conceptually, I hold a hearty continuous curiosity surrounding lineage and my place within a larger spectrum. I am interested in transforming space, shifting viewers to accept the unknown and to learn from their experiences.

Emma Fishwick

EMMA is a Perth based artist who lives and works on the land of the Whadjuk people of the Noongar Nation, WA. Emma’s practice often questions whether dance can achieve the often-complex connections between the human and non-human, challenging her understandings of the form through incorporating multiple mediums/practices. Some of these mediums are movement, drawn and photographic image, film, scenography and scholarship. This perspective on making has leant itself to a practice intimately entwined with research, process, sustainability and adaptability.

Emma has worked extensively across Australia and abroad, is a member of the STRUT Dance Board, lectures in Dance History and is an Honours supervisor at WAAPA and has been a mentor for artists with a disability via disability support provider, My Place. Emma is a graduate of the Honours (Dance) program, LINK in 2010 and in 2024, Emma completed her PhD research, Slow Choreographies, which used slow creative methodologies to interrupt everyday sexisms in Australian universities.

Emma Has been an Associate Artist with Co3 Australia focused on production management and videography in 2018, choreographed for the International Young Choreographers Project in Taiwan 2019, has engaged in multiple projects and research residencies in Perth, Sydney at Bundanon Trust and ReadyMade, Tasmania at Tasdance, Bilbao at ACT Festival, Singapore at Dance Nucleus, Melbourne at Next Wave (2016) and Dance Massive (2017) festivals. In 2020, Emma selected by Co3 to choreograph a 360’ VR film for the Revelations Film Festival and XR:WA FourbyFour project at the Gallery of Western Australia. In the same year, Emma was commissioned to present her work Slow Burn, Together at His Majesty’s Theatre, Karboordup, in the 2021 Perth Arts Festival and had co-created a video series Feminism Has No Borders with artist Sally Richardson, presented at the Blue Room Theatre, Yandilup. In 2022, Emma developed From Here, Together through Co3 Australia’s In Residence Program and received the award for OUTSTANDING NEW WORK | Slow Burn, Together at the 2022 Performing Arts WA Awards. In 2024, Emma continued to developed her work From Here, Together and performed What Came Before at PICA. Other notable choreographic works include Dance, Quiet Riot (2018) and microLandscapes (2016).

I live and work on the land of the Whadjuk people of the Noongar Nation and acknowledge that it always was and always will be Noongar land. I pay my respects to elders past, present and future.

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