Emile Sorger

Emile Sorger has always loved dancing and noticed that it is a valuable metaphor for the activity of the mind.  He took a couple tap classes when he was five but never followed up on that discipline and aside from a short introduction to swing in the seventh grade he was unexposed to any dance training for the greater part of his life.  After returning from India in the spring of 2008 Emile enrolled in an introduction to ballet class at Goucher College.  Though it was difficult and very frustrating it opened up a world of possibilities that he had not previously been exposed to.  Emile participated in a senior thesis concert that spring in a piece that integrated dance with live music and spray painting.  After a fall semester spent immersed in academic work in which he met Lily Susskind, a fellow student in a seminar on Michel Foucault, Emile participated in the Effervescent Collective's film Athenaeum Panopticon that spring.  The project, which was greatly influenced by the class he and Lily took together, brought into his mind the possibility of integrating the movement of the intellect with the movement of the body .  Since then Emile has been dancing and performing with Effervescent Collective.