Emily Shoemaker
Emily has a passion for tap dance and has studied tap dance and music theory throughout her career. Emily is a proud Aluma of the North Carolina Youth Tap Ensemble (NCYTE, 2001), based at the Ballet School. She enjoyed performing and traveling with the company for seven years. Highlights of her tenure with NCYTE include performing at tap festivals in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil; Vienna, Austria; Helsinki, Finland; Chicago, St. Louis, and New York, and being featured in the PBS documentary “Juba! Masters of Tap and Percussive Dance.” Emily is now the Artistic Director of NCYTE.
Emily has taught at many tap intensives and festivals, including the Little Rock and Syncopate Tap Festivals, and has served as a faculty member at the West Coast Dance Explosion and Streetz Dance Convention. Emily also teaches at CC & Co Dance Complex in Raleigh, NC. She has proudly watched her students go on to win Academy Awards and Tony awards, break boundaries in the world of dance, and, most importantly, become well-rounded and confident human beings.