Emma Riches is an Australian artist working across performance, choreography, writing, teaching and producing with an interest in how these roles can intersect and inform each other. 
 
Since graduating from the Victorian College of the Arts (BFA Dance, 2015), Emma has worked with notable artists including Jill Crovisier (JC movement production), Sandra Parker, Jo Lloyd, Siobhan McKenna, Alice Will Caroline, Tra Mi Dinh, Emma Harrison, Phillip Adams/Matthew Bird, Victoria Hunt, Adele Varcoe, Nebahat Erpolat, Louella May Hogan/Debbie Sings as well as Dance Makers Collective, Tasdance, Deep Soulful Sweats and Polito. 
 
Emma’s choreographic work has been commissioned by DirtyFeet, the University of Melbourne and presented at M1 CONTACT Festival Singapore, Sunshine Art Spaces, Dancehouse and Strawberry Fields Music Festival and Melbourne Fringe Festival (Compass development program). She has been a choreographic resident at institutions across Australia including Critical Path, ReadyMade Works, Lucy Guerin Inc, Temperance Hall, Ausdance NSW, Strut, GUTS, Dancehouse and Schoolhouse Studios and internationally at ImPulsTanz, Vienna.
 
Emma’s choreographic practice is interested in developing structures to push the creative and physical endurance of the performer while finding ways to leave a tangible trace of the performative action. She is the initiator of ‘The Not New Project’, a platform that profiles specific aspects of dance practice through bite-sized publications.

Emma’s solo work ‘never are’ premiered in 2025 as part of The Flying Nun season 9 at Brand X with support from the City of Sydney. The work will tour to Melbourne/Naarm in 2026.