About

EmmaGrace Skove-Epes (she/they) is a Brooklyn-born and based movement, sound, and text-based artist, performer, and educator. Her performance work has lived at venues including the Center for Performance Research, the 92nd street Y, Nothing Space, Gibney, TheaterLab, Theater for the New City, Roulette Intermedium, Brooklyn Studios for Dance, New York Live Arts, AUNTS/Arts@Renaissance, Brooklyn Bridge Park, Riverside Park, Triskelion Arts, and the School of Contemporary Dance and Thought (MA). She is currently an artist in residence at MOtiVE Brooklyn, and has previously been in residence at Chez Bushwick Inc., the Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Gowanus Arts, Gibney (Work Up), New York Live Arts (Fresh Tracks, with collaborator Jonathan González), the Sable Project (VT), and Arts on Site (Kerhonkson, NY).

As a performer, EmmaGrace currently works with choreographers Edisa Weeks and Julie Mayo. They have previously been a collaborating performer in the works of choreographers RoseAnne Spradlin, Jill Sigman, Kathy Westwater, Mariangela Lopez, Jon Kinzel, Dianne McIntyre, Jodi Melnick, Peniel Guerrier, Jesse Phillips-Fein, Jonathan González, Mor Mendel, Nadia Tykulsker, Sondra Loring, Noemie LaFrance, Leslie Boyce, Maria Simpson, and Aileen Passloff. They have performed as a vocalist with the band SCHOOL.

EmmaGrace currently teaches dance technique, improvisation, and dance composition at DanceWave and is a practitioner of the MELT Method, a self-treatment technique and form of bodywork. She has previously taught dance and somatics through the American Dance Festival, New York Live Arts, Movement Research, James Baldwin High School, Brooklyn Studios for Dance, Stella Adler/NYU Tisch Drama Department, NYU Tisch Summer Dance Residency Festival and Bard College. They are a new member of Bodies For Bodies, a collective of queer and trans bodyworkers who offer sliding-scale and free-of-charge bodywork to queer and trans clients in Brooklyn, NY.

They have organized with Creating New Futures, Artist Co-Creating Real Equity, European Dissent, Breaking White Silence, and Resource Generation.