Emma MacDonald is on the cusp of graduating with a BFA in Dance and concentration in Improvisation from Temple University. She is originally from Hartford, Connecticut, where she began dancing at the humble Limelite Studios, learning jazz and tap for ten years. She then moved on to the competitive Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts in high school, with a major in dance and minor in Theater. In her four years at Temple, she has had many wonderful opportunities to further her career in dance. She has presented three works in the student concert, worked with Joellen Meglin and Kun-Yang Lin in Crystallina, Leah Stein in Across the Grid, and Jillian Harris in The Gjeilo Project. She also had the immense pleasure of working with Jillian Harris in Inferno, a site specific work in Rome, Italy. She would like to thank Jillian for supporting her during her time in Rome and in her senior year. It is in her Creative Process course that the idea for this senior thesis took root.
Emma is interested in approaching dance from an intellectual point of view and using dance as a tool for social action and community building. Her education at Temple University, specifically in the dance department, has encouraged and enabled her to begin to do so. She is excited to finally free herself into the world and attack it with all that she has to offer, from all that she has learned.
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