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Emily Yewell Volin earned her MFA in Theatre Arts with a dance emphasis from the University of Arizona and her BS in Education from Loyola University Chicago. Emily’s teaching credits include the Agnes Scott College Dance Studies Program, Emory University Dance Program, the renowned USA International Ballet Competition Dance School, The University of Nevada Las Vegas, The University of Georgia, and the Cobb County Center for Excellence in the Performing Arts at Pebblebrook High School.  She also taught for the Chicago-based Lou Conte Dance Studio and the Giordano Dance Center. 

Emily currently delivers arts-integrated academic programming as a roster Teaching Artist with Young Audiences, Woodruff Arts Center and The Teaching Museum of Fulton County Schools.  She is also a contributing journalist for the internationally distributed Dance Informa publication, a faculty member at the Georgia Dance Conservatory, and Co-Director of VIBE Summer Dance Workshop.  Emily is an active community volunteer who currently serves as a rehearsal director for The D’AIR Project as well as Co-Vice President of the PTA, and Chair of the School Council where her children attend elementary school.  Yewell Volin has served as a Board Member of the Jazz Dance World Congress and The D’AIR Project.

Emily has performed throughout the United States, including stints with Gus Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago, River North Dance Chicago, Wats on Dance!, The University of Arizona Dance Ensemble and Jazz Dance Theatre South.  Her choreography has been selected to compete in the Jazz Dance World Congress Leo’s Competitive Event on three occasions and has been featured at Brenau University, The University of Nevada Las Vegas, The Gainesville Ballet, and the Ruth Mitchell Dance Theatre (now Georgia Metropolitan Dance Theatre), as well as in other venues, including national trade and industrial shows.

Emily's teaching presence is compassionately rigorous, energetic and fun.  She strives to produce technically proficient and marketable purveyors of the art.  Yewell Volin's studio classes and choreographic works build upon a creative philosophy that all movement, regardless of technical origin, is linked. Her teaching philosophy is based on the understanding that great growth requires diligent planning and consistent dialogue between student and instructor.  She demands a high rate of effort and progress from her students and is skilled at motivating those she instructs to set demanding but achievable goals.  Students thrive in the environment created with Emily Yewell Volin and take tremendous pride in their earned accomplishments.