Born in Arizona, and raised in Vermont, USA, Emily Welther holds a bachelor’s degree in Drama from the Experimental Theater Wing of New York University, and a bachelor’s degree in Dance/Dance-Making from the European Dance Development Center, Arnhem, the Netherlands.

She has been educated as a yoga teacher at the Soboco Yoga Institute Cologne and has completed her Master of Performance Practices at ArtEZ in Arnhem in September 2021.

Since moving to Cologne, Germany in 2004, Emily has worked extensively as a dancer/performer in the freelance scene there and throughout Europe, and has recently been performing her own work at festivals in the Netherlands and Northern Ireland.

She currently experiments with live and digital performance and sonic installations, exploring the sounds that emerge when the human body and its environment come in closest contact.