EMERY LECRONE (Choreographer & Artistic Director Emery LeCrone DANCE) is an American choreographer, dancer, and teacher. Her highly acclaimed work has been well received and has already garnered her numerous commissions. Hailed by The New York Times as “…inventive…a ready for primetime knockout” and by the New Yorker as “ambitious…expansive, and dynamic.” Ms. LeCrone continues to push the boundaries as an emerging female choreographer of her generation. The Solomon R. Guggenheim has twice commissioned evenings of Ms. LeCrone’s choreography for their esteemed Works & Process series. Her 2014 Guggenehim program featured dancers from New York City Ballet and American Ballet Theatre and new costumes by famed fashion designer Yigal Azrouël. Ms. LeCrone has created new pieces for Colorado Ballet, St. Louis Ballet, North Carolina Dance Theatre, and Minnesota Dance Theatre among others. She has received a 2010 New Essential Works (NEW) Grant to support the development and creation of her work Divergence for Oregon Ballet Theatre and she is a 2011 New York City Center Choreography Fellowship recipient. Ms. LeCrone has choreographed for The New York City Ballet’s New York Choreographic Institute, The National Choreographers Initiative, Ballet Builders, and The A.W.A.R.D Show!, as well as creating new ballets for the Juilliard School’s New Dances, Barnard College, Columbia University, University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Goucher College, and The Hartt School, among many others. In 2013 Ms. LeCrone founded Emery LeCrone DANCE to provide a home for and preserve the creation of her new dance pieces. Her company has since performed two sold-out engagements (2015 & 2017) at the Joyce Theater in New York City. Currently, Ms. LeCrone resides between New York and Los Angeles were she continues to choreograph in addition to performing with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet.