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Emily Coates (b. 1974) is a writer, professor, dancer, choreographer, and founding director of the dance studies curriculum at Yale University; Assistant Professor Adjunct of Theater Studies, Yale College; and Assistant Professor Adjunct of Directing, Yale School of Drama.

Career
Coates's professional career as a dancer began at eighteen years old, in 1992, when she received the School of American Ballet's Mae L. Wein Award for Outstanding Promise and joined the corps de ballet of the New York City Ballet (NYCB). After six years with the NYCB, Coates turned to contemporary dance and at the invitation of Mikhail Baryshnikov she became a member of the White Oak Dance Project (1998–2002). Subsequently, she has performed with Twyla Tharp Dance (2001–3), and Yvonne Rainer (2005–present). In the meantime, she graduated magna cum laude with a BA in English and holds an MA in American Studies from Yale University.

Coates has collaborated with the particle physicist Sarah Demers on an interdisciplinary course at Yale, "Physics of Dance," and they are also the coauthors of a forthcoming book on physics and dance from Yale University Press. She has contributed to PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, The Huffington Post, Theater, and most recently Chorégraphes américains à l’Opéra de Paris, an exhibition catalogue on American choreographers working at the Paris Opéra.

Coates and Demers have developed a performance project, Incarnations, which premieres at Danspace Project on March 16, 2017.