Emma Block (she/her) is a co-choreographer and performance artist who grew up in Williamsburg, Virginia. She graduated from the University of Virginia with a B.A. in Anthropology, Environmental Thought & Practice, and Dance in 2026. Although she spent the majority of her life training to be a ballet dancer, her performance works over the past few years have attempted to challenge and transgress such Euro-Western dance forms and aesthetics. Alternatively, through her creative practices, she seeks to draw understandings from Indigenous methodologies, and intends to examine colonial processes within her lineage shaped by early encounters between European-American settlers and the Choctaw people. Through process-based choreography, structured improvisation, and site-specific research, her work thinks and theorizes through practices of accountability, rupture, tending, mending, and weaving with a commitment to deconstructing and dismantling whiteness, restoring Indigenous sovereignties, and remembering and revitalizing land-based ceremonies for a more-than-human world. She is a citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, and is currently living on Monacan lands in Charlottesville, Virginia.