About

Emily Terndrup is a performer, choreographer, and director based in London and Ireland.

Emily has spent much of the past decade working in immersive dance theater as a performer and rehearsal director for Punchdrunk's acclaimed Sleep No More (2012-2019, New York & Shanghai) and The Burnt City (2022, London). She recently served as a movement director on Yael Farber’s The Tragedy of Macbeth (The Almeida Theatre, 2021) and My Brilliant Friend (The National Theatre of Iceland, 2021) and was nominated for “Best Choreography & Stage Movement” at the Gríman Awards (the National Icelandic Theatre Awards).

As a company member with Gallim Dance (2012-2014), she performed choreographer Andrea Miller's I Can See Myself in Your Pupil, Blush, Wonderland, Fold Here, and Mama Call throughout the US, Europe, and South America. Emily has also collaborated and performed with choreographers Bobbi Jene Smith, Luke Murphy-Attic Projects, Shannon Gillen + Guests, and Gregory Dolbashian. Emily served as a rehearsal director and Creative Associate at Gallim Dance, and the Creative Director for The McKittrick Hotel, crafting content and choreography for their celebrated immersive events.

With collaborator Derrick Belcham, she has choreographed, directed, and produced a number of evening-length dance theater works: FABLE (2015), DEBUT (2014), and The Wilder Papers (2014) at the Knockdown Center in New York. Together, Belcham and Terndrup have created music videos for The Antlers, My Brightest Diamond, Marissa Nadler, White Prism, BLKKathy, and Mary Lattimore. Derrick and Emily's films have been presented at the San Francisco Dance Film Festival, CASCADIA Dance & Cinema Festival, KRAFTA DOC, Greensboro Dance Film Festival, SV Showcase/40 North Film Festival, Triskelion Arts Dance Film Festival, and San Souci Dance Festival. 

Emily's other choreographic projects have been presented at The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (D.C), Lincoln Center's Clark Studio Theater (NY), and The Packing House (CO).