Danita Emma

Visiting Faculty

Danita Emma a former native of Binghamton, resides in Atlanta, Georgia where she has been teaching, coaching, and choreographing ballet for the Atlanta Ballet Center for Dance Education, North Atlanta Dance Academy, Peachtree City Dance, Brenau University, and throughout the Atlanta and Southeast region. She most recently taught and adjudicated the national audition tour for the Oakland Ballet. Ms. Emma's early ballet training began with Thelma Morris, and continued at the Pennsylvania Ballet, Boston Conservatory of Music, American Ballet Theater, and Madame Gabrielle TaubDarvash. In 2001 she completed a BFA degree in Dance from Brenau University. Ms. Emma was part of the Southern Tier community for over twenty years as Artistic Director of the Whitney Center for Dance: training students and producing professional dance in the area. She was awarded the J.F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts / N.Y. State Alliance for the Arts Education Award of outstanding contribution to the arts and education. Still contributing to the area, Ms. Emma is the Artistic Director for Binghamton University Summer Dance Institute.