emily liptow (she/they) is a multidisciplinary movement artist and facilitator originally from the Lake Erie watershed (Cleveland, OH) and currently based alongside the Eno River (Durham, NC). Their work bridges performance, ritual, and socially engaged practice to create experiences that cultivate intimacy — between people, generations, and the ecosystems that sustain them.

Working across movement, voice, and physical theater, emily explores embodiment as both artistic medium and social technology. How can practices rooted in improvisation, intimacy, and collaboration metabolize grief, strengthen collective resilience, and rehearse more care-centered futures? She wrestles and harmonizes with multiple realities and voices— the inheritance of harmful systems of oppression, dispossession, and supremacy; the quiet pulse of life in each of us; the emotional and somatic undercurrents of our material reality.

Her research is deeply informed by studies of cycles, change, death, multiplicity, and relational repair. Through intergenerational ensemble processes, they explore how performance can function as a site of cultural healing — particularly in times of ecological and social rupture — particularly in her context of being a U.S.-born, white-bodied, queer human. Their MFA thesis project, Thresholding, exemplifies this approach, weaving the practice of Threshold Singing with movement into an immersive community practice for being with grief.

Their performance and collaborative work has been presented through festivals, community arts initiatives, and experimental performance platforms, including BorderLight Fringe Festival, Maelstrom Collaborative Arts, Cleveland Public Theatre, and Sanctuary Series. In addition to their artistic practice, they teach contact improvisation and adaptive movement practices for adults and seniors.