Emily Nicholl
Emily Nicholl is a Scottish circus artist interested in creation in the places between disciplines. With a background in politics and environmental education, her research interests lie in our varying relationships with the outdoors. She aims to make work through finding narrative in honest physicality, being interested in work which surprises, asks questions and tells meaningful stories. Interested in movement vocabulary across disciplines, her speciality lies in hand to hand partner acrobatics, contemporary dance and doubles aerial as a flyer. Emily has worked nationally and internationally with Ockham's Razor's Total Theatre for Best Circus award winning show Tipping Point and was a devisor for their new intergenerational show This Time. Other experience and ongoing work ranges from intimate circus theatre, to children’s dance theatre, to large scale outdoor circus and community events and includes performing with Peut Etre Theatre, Nathan Johnston, Mimbre, Dior, NoFitState Circus, Roberto Magro and The Royal Lyceum Theatre, and teaching with the Women's Climbing Symposium.
She is delighted to be a Jerwood Fellow with Imaginate for 2020-2021, a period for learning and creating around making work for young people with additional support needs. Also an emerging producer and recipient of a Jerwood Arts Award, she worked as Assistant Producer and Stage Manager with the world’s first ampitheatre made entirely out of upcycled pianos, the multi award winning #Pianodrome. She is thrilled to be learning how best to champion physical work in Scotland which has an awareness of the message it holds.
She also takes photographs.
She is delighted to be a Jerwood Fellow with Imaginate for 2020-2021, a period for learning and creating around making work for young people with additional support needs. Also an emerging producer and recipient of a Jerwood Arts Award, she worked as Assistant Producer and Stage Manager with the world’s first ampitheatre made entirely out of upcycled pianos, the multi award winning #Pianodrome. She is thrilled to be learning how best to champion physical work in Scotland which has an awareness of the message it holds.
She also takes photographs.
“A stand-out performance…by Edinburgh-based Emily Nicholl… a tremendous asset to the show with charisma and presence overflowing. - Broadway Baby, Tipping Point review 2016
