Emi Forster

Curator

Emi Forster is a curator, writer, producer and choreographer. She holds a Master of Art Administration (Curation Major) from University of New South Wales’ College of Fine Arts (Sydney, Australia), and a Bachelor of Dance from the Victorian College of the Arts (Melbourne, Australia). As a curator Emi has worked on several dance-based and multidisciplinary programs, including the Beams Arts Festival, a unique festival of dance, visual art, theatre, film, music, workshops and talks taking place throughout the inner-city suburb of Chippendale, Sydney. Emi’s work as a writer and critic spans dance and visual arts, and she has written for such publications as RealTime Arts, Dance Australia and Incubate. She is also currently working to launch a new Canadian international performance blog, Work, that writes on performance, facilitates conversations between Canadian and international performance-makers and presents digital work.

Emi’s work as a dancer and choreographer includes training at Movement Research (New York) and work for Lina Limosani and Dean Walsh, amongst others. In 2010-11, her second full-length work, Dust, toured to Sydney, Adelaide and Melbourne, where it won the coveted Melbourne Fringe Festival Award for Best Dance. Following residencies at Queen Street Studio, Pact and YouMove, her latest full-length work, Good Evening Apocalypse, premiered at Pact (Sydney) in 2013. As an arts worker, Emi has worked at Australia’s premier centre for the development and presentation of interdisciplinary performance, Performance Space, and as General Manager of SummerWorks, Canada’s largest juried and curated performance festival.