Creative Partnership

Drawing from dance as an embodied discipline, I help translate curiosity into creative process, allowing meaning, interaction, and transformation to emerge in ways that can’t always be reached through words alone.

My Process

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    Curiosity + Inquiry

    You bring a question, an impulse, or a situation. I bring an embodied way of seeing—rooted in dance—that helps surface what’s really asking to be explored.

    Through one or two initial visioning sessions, we will explore possibilities. Rather than starting with a predetermined outcome, we allow the direction of the work to emerge through shared inquiry.

    Don’t worry if this is not a familiar mode of operation for you. I will guide you!

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    Shaping the Container

    Trust the process. As clarity begins to form, we identify the shape the work wants to take. This may lead to a participatory experience, language analysis, leadership activation, site-responsive work, or a film.

    At this stage, we define scope, timeline, and budget, and I formalize the container through a clear agreement.

    This is where the process becomes more structured and the work starts to feel more tangible.

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    Making + Emergence

    Finally, the work comes into being through iterative creation, collaboration, and responsiveness.

    Inevitably, what emerges carries a life of its own, and insights, connections, or resonances are revealed beyond what was initially imagined.

"Seasoned Professional... And so gracious. Watching Emily Running work, I experienced her enveloping passion. There is no corner of Choreography, Dance, Stage, that Emily does not OWN. From building relationships to crossing every T in the business/logistics end, to the Show itself, Emily leaves no detail to chance. Her preparation is tireless. She can do it ALL."

— Barry Yee, Striven Media