Emily Jenkins is an established, international dance artist with an embedded social and wellbeing practice. She designs, implements and artistically leads life enhancing dance initiatives. She has worked in dance for nearly two decades, and in that time has created and delivered countless opportunities for dance engagement with both cultural and health organisations. Her practice fosters unity and depth of connection, and is centred around release, reciprocity and joy.

In 2016 Emily founded Move Dance Feel, a company offering dance to women living with and beyond cancer. She is now spearheading an international #danceincancercare movement, creating a network of artists, researchers, healthcare professionals and students operating in this space. With a particular interest in addressing inequality through dance Emily created Women Who Dance in 2023, as a way of providing safe and creative spaces for all women; reducing stress and loneliness, cultivating joy, and encouraging physical and mental expansion.

She is a Churchill Fellow, a OneDanceUK and National Lottery Art, Culture and Film award winner, and was selected by Positive News magazine as one of ‘10 ordinary people who made 2021 extraordinary’. Between 2019 and 2026 she served as a committee member for the International Association for Dance Medicine and Science. She has a BA (Hons) degree in Performing Arts, Culture and Communication, and received a Keith Andrews prize for ‘excellence in Performing Arts’. She also holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Community Dance, and a Masters degree in Creative Practice from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. Alongside her dance practice, Emily is a vinyasa yoga teacher, a grief tending guide, a breath and movement facilitator, and a co-creator of ‘Returning to Wholeness’ retreats.