Emily "Lady Em" Culbreath
Emily "Lady Em" Culbreath (MFA) is an accomplished street and club dance practitioner, educator, and choreographer. She has been known for her role as a core member and rehearsal director for the world-renowned Hip Hop theater company Rennie Harris Puremovement and as co-founder and director of her street dance theater and education outreach organization Snack Break Movement Arts alongside her husband, Joshua "Supa-Josh" Culbreath. Their company won the Theater Forever duo competition at Summer Dance Forever in 2022. They have since shown original work in San Francisco, CA; Boulder, CO; Kalamazoo, MI; Philadelphia, PA; and Amsterdam, NL. Emily has showcased her work in various contexts, including as a guest artist at Franklin & Marshall College, Georgian Court University, and Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. Emily has taught and been an assistant facilitator at prestigious institutions, including the University of Colorado, The New School, the Mark Morris Dance Group, Juilliard, The Ailey School, and Princeton University's outreach programs. Her work, "Plan A: Stories of Embodied Frontiers," was selected to represent the University of Iowa at both the Central Regional Conference in Norman, OK, and at the National Conference in Washington, D.C,. in May 2025.
