For more than a decade, award-winning choreographer Emily Molnar has served as Artistic Director of the innovative, collaborative and creation-based company Ballet BC in Canada. Under her leadership, the company has developed a bold and diverse repertory that has made a unique and valuable contribution to the development of dance in Canada. She speaks with ICONS and shares her artistic vision, creative process and advice to emerging choreographers.

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• April B. - ...through a multi-layered process of building an awareness of the expansive lexicon of human movement; training the student in self-defining practices such as improvisation and Authentic Movement; and giving them choreographic tasks/studies.
• Julia G. - Perhaps compositional techniques are a craft, but choreography encompasses more than composition. Trial and error, an openness to ambiguity are necessary ingredients. Teaching is presenting tasks with the aim to explore process and create art.
• Rebecca T. - There are multiple layers of education a choreographer - including improvisational skills, composition, and use of structural elements, as well as intellectual skills such as conducting research and knowledge of the art form.

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