EMILY PIETRUSZKA began dancing professionally in 2015 after graduating with her BFA in Dance from The University of Colorado at Boulder. She began touring with Rennie Harris Puremovement in 2018. Pietruszka has shown her own work in Philadelphia, PA, at the Illadelph Street Dance festival, the Come Together Festival hosted by Koresh Dance, Here and Now vol. II hosted by W.O.R.X, and as a guest choreographer at Franklin & Marshall College (PA). Emily has taught and guest lectured in various contexts including Mark Morris Dance Group, New Visions for Public Schools, California State University, The Juilliard School, The Ailey School, Princeton University, and Rennie Harris University’s Street Dance certification program. Currently residing in Philly, Emily teaches at Philadelphia's own Street Dance education studio, Urban Movement Arts. She operates her own online personal training business, Embodied by Em (embodiedbyem.online) and is the co-founder of Snack Break (@snackbreaklivearts), a project-based duo created in 2020 that specializes in Street Dance-inspired performance works made for the concert stage.