curriculum vitae
education
2025: candidate for PMHNP, D’Youville University, NY 2018: BSN, New York University, NY
2013: LMT, Pacific College of Oriental Medicine, NY
2004: LMT, The National Academy of Massage Therapy and Healing Sciences, PA
2002: BFA, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia
produced performances
2023: clearing practice + I came here to weep w Yanira Castro, Chocolate Factory + Abrons, NY
2023: Octopus Series, an indigenous curation, Performance Space New York, NY
2022: deadbird & can anybody help me hold this body tour, Upstate Medical & Colgate, Syracuse NY
2022: Grandmother Cindy, LIVE premiere, Artist Space , New York, NY
2022: Grandmother Cindy, dancefilm premiere, Poetry Project, New York, NY
2022: Cindy Sessions, Gibney Dance, New York, NY
2022: at the waters edge, a panel, Park Avenue Armory, NY
2021: a ritual of return, Danspace Project, NY
2021: Grandmother Cindy, Leslie Lohman gala honoring Jeffrey Gibson, New York, NY
2020: deadbird & can anybody help me hold this body, PICA, Portland, OR, commissioned by PICA
2020: deadbird & can anybody help me hold this body, Bartrams Gardens, Philadelphia, PA commissioned by Bartrams
2020: deadbird & can anybody help me hold this body, Danspace Project, New York, NY, curated by Danspace Project
2020: #mmm, Kin and Care/ Platform 2020: Utterances from the Chorus, New York, NY, curated by Danspace Project
2020: the smell of my trans hormones on my t-shirt, a collaboration w Jules Gimbrone
2019 #mmm, Movement Research Festival, performance lecture
2018: Dance Crush Shake Tent, Judson Church, New York, NY, curated by Movement Research
2017: Building A Buffalo, Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, New York, NY, curated by Joseph Hall
2015: Wait for the picture while I wait for the wave, Mount Tremper Arts, Mount Tremper, NY, curated by Movement Research Festival
2016: Park mash, Site Specific Locations, New York, NY, self-production in collaboration with Aretha Aoki and Vanessa Anspaugh
2014: This Room This Braid, The Actors Fund Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Issue Project Room
2014: Personal Public: On Gender Variance in Performance Art, Napoleon Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, curated by Liza Coviello
2013: This Room, AUX gallery, Philadelphia, PA, curated by Marissa Perel
2013: baby/grapefruitbaby/one brown, one crème, Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Issue Project Room
2012: This Horse is not a Home, New York Live Arts, New York, NY, curated by Carla Peterson
2012: An improvised collaboration with Aretha Aoki, Movement Research Spring Festival- Push It Real Good, curated by Eleanor Hullihan, Neal Medlyn, Marissa Perel, and Enrico Wey
2010: My Child November, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Marya Warshaw
2010: bent, St. Marks Church, New York, NY, curated by Ishmael Huston-Jones
2009: oldscales, New York Live Arts, New York, NY, curated by FreshTracks panel
2008: HELMET, Susan Hess Choreographers Project, Philadelphia, PA, curated by Susan Hess
2007: BEAST, Philadelphia, PA, curated by Philadelphia Live Arts Festival
2005: Oh, Aida, Philadelphia, PA, curated by Philadelphia Live Arts Festival
independent dance artist 2002-current
Most recently: Jeffrey Gibson, Emily Johnson, Yanira Castro
Previously: Tere O’Connor, RoseAnne Spradlin, Gerard & Kelly, and Andrea Geyer, Headlong Dance Theater, anonymous bodies, Jerome Bel, White Oak Dance Project, Paule Turner, Faye Driscoll, Daria Fain, Jen Rosenblit, Vanessa Anspaugh, Jules Skloot, Yve Laris Cohen
choreography and direction 2002-current
devynnemory/beastproductions, New York, NY
awards
2023: USA Fellowship
2023: Foundation for Contemporary Arts
2022-2023: Danspace Project NY, research fellowship- moving forward with justice
2022: Art Matters
2021: Herb Alpert nomination
2021: Onassis USA
2021-2022: Danspace Project NY, research fellowship- generational change in the field
2020: FCA Emergency Grant
2020: National Performance Network artist engagement award
2020: Danspace Project NY, research fellowship, Kin and Care Platform-Utterances from the Chorus
bibliography & reviews
2023: walking with wampum, a love letter by devynn emory
2022: Body & Soul podcast: dancing in the liminal w Eva Yaa Asantewaa
2022: Gibney Dance Journal: Building an Ideal Care Team w Monika Nyenkan
2022: On Practice: interview with Chloe Alexandra Thompson
2021: Danspace Project Journal: One looped year but the lake w Asiya Wadud
2021: New York Times: A Choreographer Who Bridges the Worlds of Dance and Nursing
2021: Brooklyn Rail: Moving Through Grief and Transition: deadbird
2021: Gathering Space: The experience of self, other, society and space during the pandemic
2019: Critical Correspondence: In conversation with devynn emory
2017 Girls Like Us: Dance and dancing Issue #9
2015 Contact Quarterly Journal: Unsettling Assumptions
2015 Marking Time: A new anthology about the work of Jonathan Burrows & Matteo Fargion
2013 Issue Project Room: devynn emory in conversation
2012 Bomb Magazine: Gender Identity
2010 Critical Correspondence: Faye Driscoll in conversation with devynn emory
teaching & talks
2023: CARA + Voluminous Arts, a good death performance workshop
2023: Center for Dialouge + Exchange in the Arts: prayer, cedar, and land somatics
2023: MOMA Art and Practice, land somatics and the hold
2023: NYU Langone: art practices for the living, performance lecture for pandemic providers
2022: Colgate University land somatics workshop and deadbird panel w medical providers and artists
2022: MCA Chicago: visiting dance artist w Yanira Castro: building scores
2022: Gibney Dance NY, Talk it out, a curated conversation by devynn emory with Emily Johnson and Joseph Pierce
2021: Danspace Project NY, Ritual of Return, a talk and inclusive practice of land embodiment
2021: Duke University NC, Queering communities of care, panel
2021: Artist You PHL, Holy Grief, Back Together Not Back to Normal, a conversation
2021: Princeton University NJ, workshop on building toward a land acknowledgement with Dance Faculty
2020: Leslie Lohman gallery NY, Knowledge of Wounds, Indigenous Instagram takeover
2020: Weslayan University Zilkha Gallery CT, cyclical notions of time w/ Anthony Hatch and the Collective for Radical Death Studies, panel
2020: Brown University RI, The Body Issue, guest lecture
2020: Performance Space NY, NY Knowledge of Wounds- morning somatics, fire ritual
2021: Danspace Project NY, Ritual of Return, a talk and inclusive practice of land embodiment
2020 Danspace Project NY, Platform Utterances From The Chorus- the Kin & Care Research Group, performance lecture #mmm
2020: Study Sessions, NY, interview on grief with jumatatu poe
2020: Getty Research Institute LA, Dancers on Film: Okwui Okpokwasili & devynn emory, a panel
2020: Bowdoin ME, Advanced Dancing for Challenging Times, guest lecture
2020: Danspace Project NY, Conversation without Walls- grief and rage, conversation with Angie Pittman
2015: New School NY, Performing Genders, a performance class/lecture
2012-2014 Movement Research NY, teaching artist with Yvonne Meier
residencies
2023: Mass Moca w Jeffrey Gibson collaboration
2022: Artist Space production residency
2019-2021: Snug harbor, NY
2021: subcircle, ME
2019: Chocolate Factory Residency, NY
2018: YOUARENOWHERE, NY
2013: Issue Project Room Residency, NY
2010: Space Grant Brooklyn Arts Exchange Residency, NY
2009: Fresh Tracks Dance Theater Workshop Residency, NY
2007: Scholarship, Holland Dance Festival, Amsterdam
2003-2006: Susan Hess Residency, Philadelphia
2002: Independence Fellowship Foundation, London
2001: Independent Study, Ghana