The Company

Éowyn Emerald & Dancers is led by Canadian born choreographer and dancer, Éowyn Emerald. The company was founded in Portland, Oregon in 2011. Employing technical virtuosity and emotionally complex storytelling, her work strives to communicate, challenge, and evoke a clearer picture of the relationships that unite us. 

Éowyn Emerald & Dancers have appeared at On The Boards (Seattle), Risk/Reward (Portland), J.A.W. at Portland Center Stage, DanceStages (Shanghai), ACT (Dundee), FreshEdit (Dundee), Hidden Door (Leith), five times at DanceLive (Aberdeen), and six times at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe to critical acclaim. Additionally, the company has presented five performance seasons in Portland. In her 2014 Fringe appearance, Éowyn was hailed by the Times as ‘a talent to watch,’ and her 2016 Fringe included 21 sold out performances. Éowyn has received the RDA Monticello award, a NFAA A.R.T.S. Choreography Award, three first place Weiler Choreography awards and was twice selected as a Critic’s Choice by The Times. She is the creative producer of Pacific Dance Makers, a show developed in Portland, Oregon to highlight work by choreographers from across the Pacific region. Pacific Dance Makers provided a platform for dance makers to showcase their work on a fully produced evening alongside other artists.

Creative Team

Artistic Director / Resident Choreographer / Producer:
Éowyn Emerald

Rehearsal Director
Jack Anderson

Technical Manager / Lighting Designer:
James Mapes

Marketing Manager / Press Contact:
Jonathan J. Krebs

Graphic Designer:
Edgar Badua

Web Designer:
BigSnit Media

Company Photographer:
David Krebs, Sky Studio PDX (all photos by David unless otherwise stated)

Company Members

Katie Armstrong photo by Richie Muirhead
Jack Anderson photo by Grant Anderson

Éowyn Emerald

Éowyn is a Canadian born choreographer, dancer, and teacher; who was hailed by The Times as “a talent to watch.” A classically trained dancer with extensive experience in contemporary and jazz, Éowyn’s work is physical, technically demanding, and places a strong emphasis on partnering and performance.

Éowyn received her BFA in contemporary dance and choreography from The University of North Carolina School of the Arts, where she studied closely with Dianne Markham. She has also received training from The Juilliard School, Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company, Utah Regional Ballet and the RDA Craft of Choreography. She has studied with such artists as: Joan Woodbury, Ruth Barnes, Les Watanabe, Camille Brown, Janice Lancaster, Zachary Carroll, Randee Pauve, Jamie Martinez, and Mary Cochran. Her very early training includes the Goh Ballet, the Academy of Ballet Arts, Columbia Dance Company, and the Vancouver School of Arts and Academics. Her teaching experience is diverse in ages and levels as well as dance styles and techniques.

Dance programs/schools include: Dancescape After School Dance Program (Director), Columbia Dance Center, the Junior Artist Generator program, BodyVox Dance Center, Portland Public Schools: da Vinci Arts Middle School (Interim Director) and Wilson High School (Director), The Portland Ballet, The Sultanov School, Portland Youth Ballet, and most recently Citymoves Dance Agency, Scottish Dance Theatre -Early Years Aberdeen Division, and the Dance Base -Dance for Parkinson’s Aberdeen Division

She has performed professionally with BodyVox , Lauren Edson (LED ), Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre/Northwest , Lane Hunter {dance} , Tere Mathern Dance , as an assistant to Sylvain Émard for his work “Le Grand Continental” on White Bird Dance and 160 of Portland’s dance enthusiasts, TedX-PDX, Carla Mann, Tracey Durbin, Michael Curry, her own company
Éowyn Emerald & Dancers (ÉE&D), and her producing festival Pacific Dance Makers.

Jack Anderson

Jack comes from central Scotland and trained at Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance. He has performed with Rambert Dance Company, Šokio Teatras Aura and Ériu Dance Company and has created work with choreographers Mark Bruce, Breandán de Gallaí, Morgann Runacre-Temple, Didy Veldman, Matthew Robinson and Lindsay Kemp. Jack is based in Glasgow, and began working with Éowyn Emerald & Dancers in the spring of 2018, performing roles at Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Dundee Rep, DanceLive Festivals, Hidden Door, and DanceStages Festival in Shanghai.

Katie Armstrong

Katie is a freelance performer, choreographer and teacher based in Glasgow. Katie trained at Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance and worked with Rambert Company during her third year.  Since graduating, Katie has worked with various artists and companies in collaborative and performative roles including National Theatre Scotland, Rosie Kay Dance Company, Company Chordelia, Scottish Opera, for Simon Fildes/Wyn Pottratz, for Turner Prize winner Tai Shani, and for Barrowland Ballet. She has also created her own work for various festivals and events across Scotland over the past 5 years, including work for the Scottish International Storytelling Festival, Manipulate Visual Theatre Festival, Merchant City Festival, Dance International Glasgow, and the Peoples Post Code Lotterys International Gala (McEwan Hall Edinburgh). Katie has worked with Éowyn Emerald & Dancers since 2018 performing roles at Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Dundee Rep, DanceLive Festival and DanceStages Festival in Shanghai.

James Mapes

James is a freelance lighting designer, board game maker, and writer. He has worked closely with Éowyn Emerald & Dancers since its inception, collaborating on a number of works. James, a Portland native also works with BodyVox and skinner|kirk dance ensemble. He has been fortunate to tour all over the world.

Daniel Navarro Lorenzo

Daniel Navarro Lorenzo was born in Barcelona. After graduating from the professional Conservatoire of Dance of Barcelona, Institut del Teatre in 2010,  He has danced with companies such as Frontier Danceland (Singapore), Y-Space (Hong Kong), Nunzio Impellizzeri Dance Company (Switzerland), Simba Dance Ensamble (Norway), Phoenix Dance Theatre (UK), White & Givan (UK), Polish Dance Theatre (Poland), Dantzaz Konpainia (Spain), Compagnie Ballet Junior Epsedanse (France) among others.

Daniel has worked with choreographers such as Ohad Naharin, Itzik Galili, Jo Strømgren, Lukáš Timulak, Eric Gauthier, Claude Brumachon, Gustavo Ramirez, Shahar Binyamini, Thierry Malandine, Patricia Lent, Errol White, Gabrielle Nankivell and others.
 
Choreographic Awards:
-2011, L’Estruch award, LAVA award and finalist of the 10th Choreographic Competition of Burgos- NewYork. 
-2010, 1st award in the I Delmar Choreographic Award of María Carbonell in Valencia, Spain.
-2011, L’Estruch award, LAVA award and finalist of the 10th Choreographic Competition of Burgos- NewYork. 
-2010, 1st award in the I Delmar Choreographic Award of María Carbonell in Valencia, Spain.

Guest Performers

Chase Hamilton

Chase is a contemporary dance artist from Portland, Oregon. He has performed with Polaris Dance Theatre, TopShakeDance, BodyVox, and skinner|kirk DANCE ENSEMBLE. Chase began working with Éowyn Emerald & Dancers in the spring of 2017.

Jonathan J. Krebs

Jonathan has performed with Éowyn Emerald & Dancers, BodyVox, Josie Moseley Dance, tEEth, Troika Ranch, POV, Polaris Dance Theatre, Rainbow Dance Theatre, Opera Pacific, The Atlanta Opera, Hawaii Opera Theater, The Portland Opera, and The Blue Man Group. He has worked in Marketing and Programming for White Bird, The Portland Ballet, and BodyVox in Portland, and The Joyce Theater in New York City. He is a registered physiotherapist in the United Kingdom and a graduate of Robert Gordon University and Western Oregon University.

Sarah Fuhrman

Sarah is originally from Portland, OR , and trained with The School of Oregon Ballet Theatre. She has danced with Oregon Ballet Theatre, Colorado Ballet, State Street Ballet and The Mussorgsky Opera and Ballet Theatre in St. Petersburg, RU.  

Sarah danced soloist and principle roles while also working as rehearsal assistant to the company and school of Nevada Ballet Theatre. She has worked closely with Cynthia Gregory as well as artists and choreographers of Cirque du Soleil. Mostly recently Sarah has danced with Éowyn Emerald & Dancers.

Olivia Roach

Olivia is a Yorkshire born dance artist who currently lives in Glasgow. Olivia began her trained at The Riley School of Dance in Doncaster, during which time she was a Northern Ballet Associate and a Louise Brown York Scholar. At the age of 16 she moved to London to train at the Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance, where she received a first class Bachelor of Arts degree. While at the school Olivia was given the opportunity to compete in the prestigious Genee International Ballet Competition in both New Zealand and Scotland, as well as being the only student to travel with the school to Japan, China and Vietnam on their audition tour.

Since graduating Olivia has worked as a freelance artist working on array of different projects including Katie Armstrong’s ‘SKETCHES’, Bartek Woyzczsynski’s ‘Release Me, Not’ as a contortionist at the Wild Cabaret, with Bassline Circus at Boomtown Fair, as lead dancer in videos for Bang Bang Romeo’s music video ‘Chemical’, Roll’s Royce’s ‘Spirit of Ectasy’ and the Premier League football’s promotional video. Most recently Olivia has been working with Éowyn Emerald & Dancers. As well as performing and creating, Olivia also enjoys teaching the next generation of dancers.

Joel Wilson

Aberdeen born Dancer, Joel Wilson trained at the Scottish School of Contemporary Dance after initially gaining a Masters in Maths from the University of St Andrews.

He has worked freelance ever since with recurring tours performing works by Royston Maldoom OBE. This included performances alongside composer Fazil Say as well as the Duisburg Philharmonie. Joel has regularly appeared in Brian Hartley’s long running We Dance, Wee Groove which recently returned for its 10th anniversary with an extensive tour of China. Joel first danced with Éowyn Emerald & Dancers at the Dundee REP theatre in 2018 with Trinary.