Emily Aslin

Emily is a Seattle-born choreographer and dance artist with an appetite for movement and creation. 

She studied with Ensemble Ballet Theatre before training in the Academy program at Spectrum Dance Theater under Donald Byrd. Emily is a Summa Cum Laude from the Ailey/Fordham BFA program with majors in Dance and Political Science. 

She has worked with choreographers such as Donald Byrd, Jamar Roberts, Cameron McKinney, Lane Gifford, Marion Sparber, Jacqulyn Buglisi, Alexander Anderson, Jaclyn Wheatley, Eva Stone, and Felix Landerer. Emily spent summers at b12, the Donald Byrd Workshop, the Ailey Intensive, the Kizuna Dance Intensive, and the VIM VIGOR Intensive among others. 

Emily is the founder of Aslin Projects -- a research and project space for contemporary dance. She was selected as a choreographer for the 2025 Future Dance Festival and has shown her works at 92Y, 14Y, the Craft NY and was artist in residence at Carroll Hall in Brooklyn and The Visionary NY. She premiered her first evening length work with Aslin Projects in November 2025 and presented an excerpt at APAP at Peridance in January 2026.

As she creates works, Emily currently dances with Kizuna Dance, LaneCoArts, and Synchronous as she freelances on various projects throughout the city. 

Emily is excited by works that elicit true emotion within her. Her current research considers shape and absurdity in relation to stories and political reality. 

Photo: @joandwi.art