Emma Martin started out as a ballet dancer. As a choreographer her work spans dance, theatre opera, and film. She creates multidisciplinary works, often combining dance with live music, theatre, creating distinct visual universes with each piece, always with a raw style of dance as its heart. She is interested in the friction between high art and popular culture, past and future, homage and intent.

She graduated from the John Cranko School in Stuttgart, and has a BA in Russian and Drama & Theatre Studies from Trinity College Dublin. As a choreographer she made her first show in 2010, and now produces work through her company, United Fall, since 2018. She created Birdboy in 2019, and since then it has been performed in Edinburgh International Children’s Festival, Young at Art Belfast, Baboró, Young Radicals Dublin Fringe. Her most recent work is a performance and installation called KING/SHRINE, which is the first part of a new body work called “Dark Days Need Ceremony.” Her work has been shown at Dublin Theatre Festival, Dublin Dance Festival, Galway International Arts Festival, Noorderzon Performing Arts Festival, Edinburgh International Children’s Festival, Edinburgh Fringe, VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art, and Dublin International Film Festival. United Fall is generously supported by the Arts Council of Ireland and Emma is an associate artist at Visual Centre for Contemporary Art and Dance Ireland.