Emily is the owner and artistic director of the EMpowered Dance Center. Emily has professional dance experience as well as education to create a strong, technically sound program. Professionally, Emily worked as a trainee with the elite Joffrey Ballet Company under the direction of Edith d'Addario and performed as a soloist with the Baltimore Ballet Company, under the direction of Cem Catbas. Contemporary professional experience, with Surge, under the direction of Ken Skrzesz. Beginning her dance education at Peabody Conservatory she was awarded a full scholarship to the Arts for Talented Youth Program. Emily performed with the Washington ballet as a student, under the direction of Rudolph Kharatian, and as a soloist in the Pas de Trois in Kharatian's original ballet, Into the Light. Receiving scholarships for summer programs including Virginia School for the Arts, Joffrey Ballet, and Hartford Ballet, Emily attended American Ballet Theatre, Joffrey Ballet, Burklyn Ballet, and Virginia School of the Arts for summer intensives. Emily graduated from Carver Center for Arts and Technology and holds an AAS in both Massage Therapy and Physical Therapy Assistant. Completing her Bachelor of Science in Health Studies and ultimately her Masters of Science in Kinesiology and Wellness Management from SUNY Plattsburgh. Emily holds certifications as a Physical Therapist Assistant in Brain Injury, Neuromuscular Developmental Techniques, and is LSVT BIG certified for Parkinson's Disease. She is also certified in Pilates technique, Adaptive Dance, Progressive Ballet Technique, Massage Therapy, Pregnancy Massage, Yoga, and CPR. Emily always looks for ways to introduce dance to everyone and created a wheelchair dancing program at the University of Maryland Rehabilitation and Orthopedic Institute (formerly Kernan). Emily manages both Chapters of Dance Honor Society for the studio, through the National Dance Education Organization and is a member of the International Association for Dance Medicine and Science.  

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Proudly, Emily's students have attended Alvin Ailey School, Kirov Academy, Burklyn Ballet, Joffrey Ballet, Washington Ballet, The Rock School, Ballet West, and Kaatsbaan Summer Intensive Programs. Professionally, students are working as trainees and corps de ballet members in Kansas City Ballet, Ballet Tucson, Rochester City Ballet, Ballet West, and Ballet Theatre of Maryland. Sharing a love of anatomy and kinesiology in the classroom many students are pursuing degrees in the medical field and often choose to work specifically in sports medicine. 

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Emily's pedagogy is that every student in the classroom is the best student in the classroom. ALL are welcome here, dance is truly for EVERY BODY.