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Emma Lutz-Higgins (b. Montpelier, VT)
​Education: 2016, B.A. Dance & Gender/Sexuality Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY.
Teaching
2024, "Intelligent Bodies, Creative Minds" workshop, consultant, University of Austin, Austin, Texas
2022, "Embodied Release," 3 class dance series, Flock Dance, Portland, Oregon
Residencies
2023-2024, Alembic Residency, Performance Works North West, Portland, Oregon
2021-2023, Residency at Flock Dance, Portland, Oregon
Press
2025- Amy Leona Havin, Dance Review: ‘FLOOR’ is a plastilina wonderland of depth and dialogue, Oregon Arts Watch, March 24, 2025
2024- Hannah Krafcik, Dance Review: Alembic Artists in performance, Oregon Arts Watch, April 14, 2024
2023- Amy Leona Havin, Review: Danielle Ross presents ‘Lineage’, Oregon Arts Watch, June 19, 2023
2020- Siobhan Burke, 'Some Pros Let It Go on TikTok: ‘Is This the Future?', NY Times, April 29, 2020
Select performance work
HORIZON (in progress)
Choreography and performance by: Tahni Holt and Emma Lutz-Higgins
Sound Score: Luke Wyland
Sculpture Installation: Jess Perlitz
Perfomance TBA, 2025
Twin Mash Rock
Choreography and performance by: Tahni Holt and Emma Lutz-Higgins
Sound Score: Luke Wyland
Performing as part of RISK/REWARD Festival, Portland OR
June 2024
High Water
Sculpture Installation by AUXARTS
Choreography and Performance: Tahni Holt and Emma Lutz-Higgins
Live sound installation: Luke Wyland
Improve Series at Building Five, Portland OR
October 2023
Lineage
Choreography: Danielle Ross
Dancers: Allie Hankins, Muffie Delgado-Connelly, Hannah Krafcik and Emma Lutz-Higgins
PICA, Portland, OR
June 2023
Hot Oil On the Tarmac
Choreography: Gwendolyn Knapp
Performed by: Emma Lutz-Higgins and Molly Ross
Music by: Matt Norman
Exponential Festival - The Brick Theater, Brooklyn New York
January 2020
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Last Resort
Choreography: Jo Warren
Movement and Performance by: Emma Lutz-Higgins and Meg Herzfeld
Music by: Jay Rosen
Gibney Dance Center and Movement Research
2019
Descend Sky
Choreography: Jessie Young
Sound by Jason Finkelman
Performed by: Justin Faircloth, Raha Behnam, Emma Lutz-Higgins, Lea Fulton
Fresh Tracks Showcase at New York Live Arts, NYC, 2017
DraftWork at Danspace Project, 2017
Performed by Justin Faircloth, Raha Behnam, Emma Lutz-Higgins, Lea Fulton
2017
Your Silence Is Killing Me
Choreography: Stephanie Saywell
Performed by: Emma Lutz-Higgins
WAXworks, Triskelion Arts, Brooklyn, NY, October 2017
Gibney Dance, New York, NY, August 2016
Created under the mentorship of Doug Varone through his DEVICES program for emerging choreographers.​
Select choreographic work
FLOOR
Choreography by: Emma Lutz-Higgins
Performed by: Allie Hankins, Emily Jones, John Niekrasz A Co-Alembic Production
Performance Works NorthWest
March 2025
You Make Me Sick pt 2.
Choreography by: Emma Lutz-Higgins
Performed by: Allie Hankins, Emily Jones, John Niekrasz and Helen Spencer-Wallace
Made through the Alembic Residency at Performance Works NorthWest
Performance Works NorthWest
March 2025
You Make Me Sick pt 1.
Choreography by: Emma Lutz-Higgins
Performed by: John Niekrasz, Amelia Weesies and Helen Spencer-Wallace
Informal work-in-progress showing at Flock Dance Center, Portland OR December 2022
Informal work-in-progress showing at Shaun Keylock Dance Studios, Portland OR April 2023
Cosmic Coronation
Choreography by: Emma Lutz-Higgins
Performed by: Gwendolyn Knapp and Franny Slote
Living Gallery, Brooklyn NY
March 2020
Microwaved Dunce
Choreographed and performed by: Emma Lutz-Higgins and Gwendolyn Knapp
No Theme Performance Festival, New York
August 2018
Gymnasia
Artist, Producer, Concept: Rose Nestler
Videography: Robin Stein
Choreographed and Performed by: Emma Lutz-Higgins, Justin Faircloth, Joanna Warren, Meghan Herzfeld
BRIC Project Room Brooklyn, NY
2018
Strange Business
Artist, Producer, Concept: Rose Nestler
Videography: Robin Stein
Choreographed and Performed by: Emma Lutz-Higgins, Joanna Warren, Meghan Herzfeld Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY
2018
Love on the Dance floor
Choreography and Performance by: Gwendolyn Knapp, Emma Lutz-Higgins, Meghan Herzfeld AUNTS at Superchief Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2018​
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