Emma Fishwick

Boorloo based choreographer Emma Fishwick has an interdisciplinary practice that works across movement, digital media, writing, and academic scholarship. Emma has worked extensively across Australia and abroad, lectures in Politics of Dance, Choreography, and is an Honours supervisor at Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. Emma’s 2024 PhD, Slow Choreographies, addressed everyday sexisms in Australian universities through embodied creative methods. In 2026, Emma designed set for A Cure 4 Loneliness at the Blueroom Theatre, AV design for Lost and Found Opera’s The Trial and is the digital editor for arts publication Seesaw Magazine. In 2025 Emma was a recipient of a Minderoo Artist residency, selected for the ATLAS choreographic program, Vienna, created the AV design for Yirra Yaakin 7 Stages of Grieving and created marathon, O, marathon for Sydney Dance Company’s New Breed Season. In 2024, Emma developed her work From Here, Together and performed What Came Before at PICA. Her work Slow Burn, Together, won OUTSTANDING NEW WORK at the 2022 Performing Arts WA Awards. Between 2018-2023 Emma was a member of the STRUT Dance Board and was a mentor for artists with a disability via disability support provider, My Place.