Emily (Lady Em) Culbreath, MFA, is a dance maker, educator, writer, performer, and practitioner whose work inhabits the crossroads of street and club dance, choreo-activism, theater, and collective practice. She is best known as a former core member and rehearsal director with American street dance theater company, Rennie Harris Puremovement, and currently as the co-founder and director of Snack Break Movement Arts, a Hip Hop theater and education collaborative that presents work nationally and internationally, including at the San Francisco International Hip Hop Dance Festival and Summer Dance Forever (Amsterdam).<\/p>\n
Her research examines the intersections of critical race theory, gender studies, autoethnography, Hip Hop theater and pedagogy, and collaborative performance, tracing how embodied knowledge flows through identity, power, and collective authorship. Emily has served as a guest artist-in-residence at institutions across the United States and presented work at the American College Dance Association National Festival (Washington, D.C., 2025). She teaches and lectures in academic and community spaces and has contributed writing to the dance journalism platform thINKingDANCE (Philadelphia). Emily is thrilled to be joining the faculty at Bates as an Assistant Professor of Dance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1984,"featured_media":8203,"template":"","class_list":["post-8057","faculty-profile","type-faculty-profile","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/8057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/faculty-profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1984"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/8057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8204,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/8057\/revisions\/8204"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}