EMMA S. KIMBALL is a Colorado-born performing artist who creates live performance experiences utilizing a highly collaborative process that involves dance, speech, sound, visual design, and spatial activation. She directs, choreographs, performs, and designs for theater, dance, and video as well as creating hybrid original works. She dances with Life/Art Dance Ensemble and Stacey Temple Dance and freelances as a performer, choreographer, director and collaborator. In the past, she was an Associate Producer for The Orchard Project, and worked on projects with Ruddyduck Theater, HOLDTIGHT, Control Group Productions, Nerd Rat Media, Canyon Concert Ballet, Theater Reconstruction Ensemble, The Plaboratory, and Built for Collapse.

Her original works have been presented as part of Convergence, Life in Motion, First Kiss Film Festival, Inner Voices, The Fort Collins Fringe Festival, The Stained Glass Experience, CSU Alumni Dance Concert, WAXworks, XYZnyc at The Tank, The Outlet Dance Project, and The Colorado Choreographer's Showcase. Works directed by Emma have been presented at Dixon Place and at a house party produced by SSBKLYN. She has also worked as a Sound Intern for The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, a Sound Designer for plays in New York and Colorado, and on various short films and music videos.

Emma is currently the Finance & Programs Associate for Bonfils-Stanton Foundation. As an administrator, she has worked for Education & Community Engagement at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, and in Development for National Sawdust and The Lark Playwriting Center. She has also done general administrative and producing work for The Orchard Project, Built for Collapse, the Colorado State University Dance Division, and Perry-Mansfield Performing Arts School and Camp. 

Emma is the Board Chair of SpaceTalks and serves on the board of Stain’d Arts, and the events committee of Presenting Denver.

Current interests: movement improvisation, AEW wrestling, shashiko needlework, making music videos, and garden-fresh carrots (always).

Please contact Emma if you'd like more information on any of her fantastic collaborators, additional works (in the past or currently in process), teaching experience, or anything else on this site.