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 the renowned Hip-hop theater company, Rennie Harris Puremovement, in 2018. Pietruszka has shown her own work at the Illadelph Street Dance Festival, The Come Together Festival hosted by Koresh Dance, and Here and Now vol. II hosted by W.O.R.X. She has been a guest choreographer at Franklin & Marshall College (PA) and Georgian Court University (NJ). 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 Philadelphia, Emily holds an adjunct faculty position at Franklin and Marshall College and teaches at Philadelphia’s own street dance education studio, Urban Movement Arts. She operates her own online personal training business, Embodied by Em, and is the co-founder of Snack Break Movement Arts, a project-based duo that won Summer Dance Forever’s Theater competition duo category in the summer of 2022.