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Celebrating 10 seasons of innovative dance making! COMPANY OVERVIEW:
Emily Cargill and Dancers creates work that artistically and physically pushes boundaries.

The movement is athletic, organic, intimate and human. Founder and Choreographer, Emily Cargill, encourages collaboration and an ongoing exchange of ideas. The company's first performance was at the Modern Atlanta Dance Festival, with the work "Meadow By a Train"(March 2014). ECD has performed all over the East Coast, in festivals and venues such as the Detroit Dance City Festival (August 2014), NYC Dance Fest (September 2014), Florida Dance Festival (2014), New Grounds Dance Festival (2015), Art on the Atlanta Beltline (2015), Fulton County Arts Week (2016), Boston Contemporary Dance Festival, North Carolina Dance Festival, Ladyfest CLT, Mint Museum, High Museum of Art, Richmond Dance Festival, Dance Canvas' Choreographic Initiative, Dogtown Dance Theatre, Emory University, Skwirlhaus Theatre, and Oxford University. BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR:

Open Company Class at the Florida Ballet, Wednesdays in August, from 6:30-8 pm. Check us out on the web for company information and class description. DANCERS:
Christie Fleming
Jessica Eurom
Sarah Gowdy
Olivia Lindfors

FOUNDER & CHOREOGRAPHER:
Emily Cargill is the Founder and Artistic Director of Emily Cargill & Dancers. Emily has her MFA in Dance Performance and Choreography from Florida State University and her BA in Dance from James Madison University. Emily has taught as an adjunct instructor of dance at Kennesaw State University, Georgia College and State University, Spelman College and Winthrop University. Emily has also been on faculty at the Atlanta Ballet, Callanwolde Fine Arts Center, Douglas Anderson School of the Arts, and the Performing Arts Center of Tallahassee. Her work has been commissioned by Braided Light Dance Project, Jacksonville Dance Theater, Staibdance, the Atlanta Ballet, Douglas Anderson School of the Arts, Kennesaw State University, Georgia College and State University, Belmont Abby College, Winthrop University, James Madison University, and Washington and Lee University. Emily also has her 200- hour Yoga certification and is certified by the National Yoga Alliance.

04/13/2026

Reminiscing on our profoundly inspiring, beautiful, moving experience at the 4th Annual Women Arts Exchange, where we premiered our newest work, almost/invisible/here.

How has it been a month since we gathered together and celebrated the female artistic voice?!?! Artists - we love, miss and cherish you!

Images of almost/invisible/here by the iconic 🌟

03/03/2026

Art enthusiasts, art lovers + supporters, friends + family and the Jacksonville community - take a peek at just some of the faces that will be presenting visual and performance art for the 4th Annual Women Arts Exchange this March 6 + 7 at Beaches Museum and Players by the Sea!

These female creatives are stunning, bold, humble, fierce, intelligent and insanely talented and will all be in the same place at the same time next weekend - where else in Jacksonville does this happen?!

These creative powerhouses are coming from far and wide as well as right here at home to bring you art that moves you, speaks to you, forces you to look inward, and invokes joy, beauty and introspection at every turn. From the phenomenal visual artists at the Beaches Museum to the innovative installation artists in the History Garden to the iconic performance artist line up YOU DO NOT WANT TO MISS THIS, JACKSONVILLE!

So, head to the WAXINJAX link in our bio and snag your tickets today. We promise you, this is THE art event of the year and we want YOU to be a part of it! Come celebrate Women's History Month with us at the 4th Annual Women Arts Exchange!

Women rock! Women in the arts rock even harder! 👏🔥👏

02/07/2026

We are thrilled to ANNOUNCE our next featured WAX choreographer, the stunning Jacqui Hinkson of the Atlanta-based company Excavate Body. 👏 🔥 👏

Jacqui Hinkson is a movement and visual artist, arts administrator, and the Founder and Artistic Director of Atlanta-based dance and performance company, EXCAVATE BODY. Jacqui is a long-time mover — drawing inspiration from years as an athlete, yoga practitioner, runner, and dancer. She also considers her work in dance and movement heavily infused with her approach and work as a visual artist, often approaching composition through that lens.

She completed ImmerseATL under the guidance of Sarah Hillmer, George Staib, and Anna Bracewell in 2021, and attended Paris Summer Academy with ORIANTHEATRE, under Mehdi Farajpour, in the summer of 2022. Later that year, Jacqui premiered her first evening-length work, AVALANCHE, at Windmill Arts. Following this premiere, Jacqui officially founded EXCAVATE BODY, and became a resident company at Windmill Arts.

Jacqui considers EXCAVATE BODY a product of circumstance and necessity, and observes it as an essential part of her daily life. She is amused by the spontaneity, grit, and trust that leading a dance company presents and looks forward to witnessing the way the company, and work, evolves over the years.

EXCAVATE BODY leans into its physically demanding movement language, utilization of palpable imagery and visual art informed practices, and spontaneous and generative processes, to produce works that are interested in digging away at what is possible, probable, and true.

EXCAVATE BODY plays with a tension-inducing juxtaposition: floating effortlessly in the unknown, while diving head first into embodied effort & rigor. This makes for a visceral push and pull that encourages viewers to throw themselves off their center, and into the deep end with us.

EXCAVATE BODY is carving out a new space for curious and bold dance artists, sharing intentional, athletic, and daring work, and committing to seeking out unique opportunities for the flourishing Atlanta dance community.

Come see her phenomenal work at the 4th Annual Women Arts Exchange this March 6 + 7 at Players by the Sea! 👏

02/03/2026

JACKSONVILLE! Come check us out at Downtown's Art Walk tomorrow night, as the featured performance artist at the beautiful space! There are three chances to see featured excerpts of our last world premiere, the passenger, AS WELL AS our latest work, almost/invisible/here, premiering this March 6 + 7 at the Women Arts Exchange.

Shows at :
6:30 pm
7:00 pm
7:30 pm

FREE! Come support the arts and as always, have an awesome time supporting downtown JAX at Art Walk! See you there, Jacksonville! 👏👏👏

02/02/2026

Thrilled to introduce our next featured Women Arts Exchange choreographer, the beautiful Jada LaFaire Allen. 👏👏👏

Jada is a Jacksonville, Florida native and a recent graduate of Valdosta State University, where she earned her BFA in Dance and received the Honors Award for Creative Excellence in Dance. During her time at VSU, Jada was a scholarship recipient and a member of the National Honor Society for Dance Arts. She performed in numerous faculty, guest artist, and student works, and had the opportunity to present her own choreography at the 3rd Annual Women’s Art Exchange and the American College Dance Association.

Jada’s training includes the American Dance Festival and intensives with Doug Varone and Dancers, Staib Dance, Jacksonville Dance Theatre, Emily Cargill and Dancers, and New Dialect. She is currently a company member with Emily Cargill and Dancers, where she continues to develop her artistic voice and performance practice.

Jada's work is elegant, quirky, innovative, gorgeous and just phenomenal. She floats through her movement with lightness and power and demands the stage with her focused and gentle energy. You will LOVE her newest work set to premiere at the 4th Annual WAX this March 6 + 7 at the iconic Players by the Sea in JAX Beach!

See you there!

01/28/2026

Please welcome our next featured WAX choreographer, the lovely Theresa Jimmerson. 👏👏👏

Theresa Jimmerson is a choreographer and dance artist from Germany, based in St. Augustine, Florida. She received her ballet training in the pre-professional program of Theater Basel under Amanda Bennett and at the German Opera on the Rhine in Düsseldorf. In 2016, she moved to New York City, where she performed with numerous companies and freelance choreographers, including Vivo Ballet (Enzo Celli), RIVA Dance Company (Rannvá Niclasen), Luca Renzi Smith, Julia Ehrstrand, Max Stone, and others. Her choreographic work has been presented in Germany and across the United States at dance festivals, college showcases, and performance series. Most recently, she has been commissioned to create new works for Jacksonville University, Jacksonville Dance Theater, and Florida Southern College. She is the founding Artistic Director of Calima Dance, a newly established contemporary dance company based in Northeast Florida.

We are thrilled to welcome Theresa to the WAX family and we promise you WILL NOT want to miss her new dance work. Theresa's choreography is intense, visceral, powerful, beautiful and physically demanding- creating a dynamic connection between her dancers and the audience.

Get your tickets NOW to see this phenomenal line up of female dance makers! Tickets in link in bio!

See you there, JAX! 🔥

01/27/2026

👏 👏 👏ANNOUNCEMENT!!👏 👏 👏

We are thrilled to feature our first choreographer for the 4th Annual Women Arts Exchange, the one and only, Sami Coplon!

Samantha “Sami” Coplon is a freelance dance performer, educator, and choreographer currently based in Orlando, FL. Originally from northern New Jersey, Sami trained primarily at the Dance Academy of North Jersey under the direction of Jason Luks, Jaclyn Walsh, and Angelica Stiskin. She performed at Symphony Space in New York City and appeared in the Capezio A.C.E. Awards in both 2016 and 2018.

Sami continued her training at the University of Florida, earning her BFA in Dance in 2022. There, she studied under Dante Puleio, Xan Burley, Alex Springer, and Trent D. Williams Jr., among others. Following graduation, she relocated to New York City to further her artistic development, working and training with artists including Doug Varone, LaQuet Sharnell Pringle, and Emily Cargill. She performed across various festivals and showcases in NYC and beyond, at venues such as Brooklyn Music School, Dancewave, and Gibney, . She most recently performed with LaQuet Sharnell Pringle in their debut show, "The Art of Becoming." She is also an experienced dance educator and currently teaches weekly open classes at Momentum Dance Complex in Winter Garden, FL.

In 2024, Sami founded her own collective, Cope + Company. Cope + Company crafts contemporary work driven by intricate detail and bold physicality, keeping dance urgent, connective, and essential. Since its inception, the company has performed in festivals and showcases across the East Coast. A recent milestone includes premiering In Hushed Caveats, presenting Parts I and II together for the first time, at the PDC Live Arts Festival in Brooklyn, NY.

Cope + Company is set to premiere a new work at Women Arts Exchange in March 2026. The company is thrilled to be back at WAX for the 4th time.

Sami and dancers, we can't wait to have you back! The company's work is bold, beautiful, tender, fierce and innovative and you don't want to miss her newest work in March at the iconic

See you there JAX! 👏 👏 👏

12/16/2025

On this 💫 9th Day Before Christmas 💫 we would like to honor our communities. The people that fill us up, bring us love + light and encourage us to be the best version of ourself. Those that always have our backs and always mention our name in a room full of people - wanting the best for us and truly being a cheerleader and supporter in our life.

Thank you to all of our *people* and for believing in us, loving us, supporting us and filling us up. We love you to the moon and back. 🌜

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