Guest Artists

Emily Haussler (she/her) is the Artistic and Executive Director of RESILIENCE Dance Company (RDC), founded in 2019 in St. Louis, MO. Overall, her work centers on building healthier, more sustainable dance communities by equipping dancers with resources for their mental health, physical wellbeing, and artistic success. She believes in the power of collaboration and in challenging the toxic norms of the dance world, seeking to create engaging, visceral dance works inside of healthy dance spaces. Her full-length choreographic works for the company include Instead of waiting, they weave (2025), Falling Forward (2024), Come With Me (2023), All Times At Once (2022), Making Room (2021), and Stanzas & Sculptures (2020). Her notable short works have been shown in St. Louis, MO (Washington University, The Link Auditorium), Kansas City, MO (The Gem Theater), Detroit, MI (Detroit Institute of the Arts), Cape Girardeau, MO (Southeast Missouri State University), Nashville, TN (The Looby Theater), and Durham, NC (American Dance Festival). Furthermore, her dance film, There Are No Rules, was shown at Exchange Choreography Festival 2020. She has danced professionally with Common Thread Contemporary Ballet (2017) and Emily Duggins (2020), and as a trainee with Nashville Ballet (2018) and The Big Muddy Dance Company (2019) prior to founding RDC. She has taught master classes at St. Louis University, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Washington University, Webster University, Southeast Missouri State University, Missouri Dance Organization Conference, and American College Dance Association Conference. Additionally, she was a member of the CIC’s Social Impact Cohort (2024/25) and an adjunct professor in Contemporary Partnering at Webster University (2025). Emily holds a B.A. in Dance and Biology from Washington University in St. Louis where she was the recipient of the Ian D. Cramer Prize for Dance (2018) and the Marcus Artist in Residence Award (2022).

Morgan Williams is a distinguished international performer, choreographer, and creative director. At just 18, he secured his first professional contract with Dance Kaleidoscope in Indianapolis, IN. He later performed with renowned concert dance companies including Momenta Dance Company, Cerqua Rivera, Joel Hall & Dancers, Chicago Dance Crash, Deeply Rooted, Eisenhower Dance Detroit, and Visceral Dance Chicago.

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In 2019, he founded Water Street Dance Milwaukee, a professional repertory company recently recognized by Dance Magazine as one of its 成人视频�25 to Watch.成人视频� His choreographic works have toured extensively throughout the United States, earning critical acclaim. He was also a finalist for the McCallum Theatre Palm Desert Choreography Festival.

Morgan has been commissioned to create works for leading companies and institutions such as Madison Ballet, Visceral Dance Chicago, Milwaukee Ballet II, Texas Christian University, UW成人视频揚arkside, and Illinois State University.

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