Emmalee Hallinan is a performer, choreographer, dance educator, and lifelong learner.  As a proud alumna of Slippery Rock University’s department of dance, she has gone on to pursue professional development at the American Dance Festival, the Bates Dance Festival, the Paul Taylor winter intensive, the Limón summer intensive, and more. She has studied and performed repertory by a multitude of influential artists, including but not limited to José Limón’s Moor’s Pavane (staged by Kurt Douglas), Paul Taylor’s Esplanade (staged by Michael Trusnovec), as well as works by Florian Lochner and Alice Klock (FLOCK), Alexandre Munz, and Helen Simoneau, among others.
 

Her experience in dance practice and performance has been wielded in various learning spheres to serve students across Pennsylvania — most notably as an adjunct professor at Slippery Rock University and as a faculty member at the Grier School. Additionally, she has championed the dissemination of histories and forms situated on the “Jazz Dance Continuum” as an affiliate of Moncell Durden’s educational platform, Intangible Roots. 

​As a graduate student at the University of Iowa, she was awarded the Iowa Arts Fellowship, the M.F.A. Summer Fellowship, and a summer research grant from the Division of Performing Arts. Her practice-based research is situated in worlds of queer theory and feminist inquiry, and her teaching aims to contextualize movement frameworks inside histories of race/class/gender in lecture halls and dance studios alike. She holds a B.F.A. in dance and business administration from SRU and an M.F.A. in dance from the University of Iowa.