About

Emily Terndrup is a performer, choreographer, and director working in dance, theater, and film.

She has spent much of her career as a performer and Resident Director for the renowned immersive theatre company Punchdrunk in their productions The Burnt City (2022-2023, London) and Sleep No More (2012-2019, New York/Shanghai). Most recently, she worked as an Associate Director on Life and Trust, a large-scale immersive production of Faust in New York. Emily served as choreographer for Gina Moxley's I Fall Down (Cork Midsummer), and as movement director on Sophie Motley’s The Summer I Robbed a Bank (The Everyman, Cork), Emma Jordan’s The Glass Menagerie (The Everyman, Cork), Josh Seymour’s Suddenly Last Summer (The English Theatre in Frankfurt), as well as Yael Farber’s The Tragedy of Macbeth (The Almeida Theatre) and My Brilliant Friend (The National Theatre of Iceland), for which she was nominated for “Best Choreography & Stage Movement” at the Gríman Awards. 

As a company member with Gallim Dance (2012-2014), she performed choreographer Andrea Miller’s I Can See Myself in Your Pupil, Blush, Wonderland, Fold Here, and Mama Call throughout the US, Europe, and South America. Emily has also collaborated and performed with choreographers Liz Roche, Bobbi Jene Smith, Luke Murphy-Attic Projects, and Shannon Gillen. Emily served as a rehearsal director and Creative Associate at Gallim Dance, and the Creative Director for The McKittrick Hotel, crafting content and choreography for their celebrated immersive events.

With collaborator Derrick Belcham, she has choreographed, directed, and produced a number of evening-length dance theater works: FABLE (2015), DEBUT (2014), and The Wilder Papers (2014) at the Knockdown Center in New York. Together, Belcham and Terndrup have created music videos for The Antlers, My Brightest Diamond, Marissa Nadler, White Prism, BLKKathy, and Mary Lattimore. Derrick and Emily’s films have been presented at the San Francisco Dance Film Festival, CASCADIA Dance Cinema Festival, KRAFTA DOC, Greensboro Dance Film Festival, SV Showcase/40 North Film Festival, Triskelion Arts DanceFilm Festival, and San Souci Dance Festival.

Emily’s other choreographic projects have been presented at The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (D.C), Lincoln Center’s Clark Studio Theater (NY), and The Packing House (CO).