Emily Stein, MFA GCFP, is a veteran of Chicago’s dance scene, dancing, choreographing, and teaching. She teaches ballet technique and Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement® and is on the faculty of the Grainger Academy of the Joffrey Ballet’s Adult/Open Division. She has taught at the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago and Barat College, and is thrilled to be teaching at the Theater School of DePaul University. For many years, she danced and choreographed with Chicago’s Zephyr Dance, performing and presenting work locally and nationally. Her ongoing interest in the evolution of ballet inspired her choreographic series
Secret Experiments in Ballet, which plays in the intersection of ballet and improvisation. In 2012 she co-founded BalletLab Chicago with Paige Caldarella, to share their research and dialog on evolving ballet pedagogy with the broader dance community. BalletLab continues to present at national conferences, including CORPS de Ballet, Society of Dance History Scholars, and the National Dance Education Organization. She holds BA from the University of Iowa, an MFA from Smith College, and is a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner. She teaches public Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement® classes, and maintains a private practice working with individual clients, both dancers and “civilians.”
Her dance website is:
https://emilysteindance.com/
Her Feldenkrais website is:
https://www.emilysteinfeldenkrais.com/