Kenyon Hall Presents - For You, For Me, For Us (Workshop)
KENYON HALL PRESENTS
For You, For Me, For Us
A production by Emi Aiken
FREE ADMISSION
Saturday, August 29 2026 (All Ages encouraged)
11am - 1pm
Free, All-ages Creative Movement and Choreography Workshop at Kenyon Hall!
Bring your family and come participate in our All-ages workshop where Emi Aiken will lead participants to dance, sing, draw, write poetry and create dances together at Kenyon Hall, to the musical stylings of Sawyer Best who will be playing the historic Kenyon Hall, Mighty Wurlitzer! https://www.kenyonhall.org/about
In the first half of our workshop, we will explore movement and creative art games and concepts. In the second hour, we will begin to shape and highlight our collective ideas to choreograph a piece that we will film in Kenyon Hall and premiere the next day at the For You, For Me, For Us- Kid’s Program
About the Artist:
Emily (Emi) Aiken holds a BFA in Dance and a MFA in Choreography from UNCGreensboro studying dance, writing, pedagogy, and performance art. Emi additionally holds a Certificate in Counseling from NC State University, a Certificate in Integrative Health Coaching from Duke University, a Certificate in Herbal Medicine from Trillium Herbal Medicine trade school, and is a final stage trainee of Kinetic Awareness- a mindful movement technique developed by Elaine Summers of Judson Dance Theater. Emi has performed nationally and internationally for COMPANY by Justin Tornow (Durham, NC), Valerie Green Dance Entropy (Queens, New York), Thea Little Productions (Brooklyn, New York), and was an original collective member of Collapss: Collective of Happy Sounds (Greensboro, NC). Emi has also been a member of the Royal House of LaBeija, the first national and international Vogue house, since 2016.
Emi has taught and performed Creative Dance, Jazz, Tap, Ballet, Contemporary, Acrobatics, Somatics, and Vocal Performance for over 19 years in North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Florida, Italy, Belgium, Greece, Poland, Bolivia, and Seattle. Emi is a lifelong student of Luigi and Francis of Luigi’s Jazz Centre NYC, and is heavily influenced by the specificity, calmness, and emotion of Luigi’s engaging style. Much like Luigi, Emi believes that every person is creative and capable at their core, having the ability to understand their bodies in space, how to exist peacefully with others, and how to implement practice toward personal and collective goals.
Emi has been teaching and performing in the Seattle area since 2024, previously living in New York for 8 years, and originally from the mountains of North Carolina. In Seattle, Emi is a freelance performer and teaches children- instructing Improvisation, Ballet, Tap, Jazz, Contemporary, Acrobatics, and American Ballroom Dance. Emi practices liberatory and hierarchically aware methodologies- seeing teaching, performing, and creating as a responsibility toward heartfelt awareness and equitable presentation. Emi treats themself, also, to this heartfelt awareness when creating and improvising- seeing every score, ritual, or performance as a way to explore, express, and continue learning with loving presence.
