Emily Bate

Emily Bate is a singer, composer, and songleader. She works fluidly across disciplines including music, performance, theater, and choral music.

Performance Residency

January 2027

Emily will be in residence developing a new performance tentatively called (You Make Me Feel Like), a minimalist, theatricalized concert based on background singers. Emily is composing new, original songs, then removing the melody, which no one will ever hear.

In (You Make Me Feel Like), background singers perform supporting labor in a mysterious bardo with no lead singer in sight. Where did the melody go? What is left in its wake? The show explores emotional textures of an age of unfolding collapse, and how our current polycrisis moves from distant background noise to a four-alarm fire.

Culminating in an open rehearsal, the residency work includes research and exploration, looking at choreography, music and staging, to bring the concept of the piece to life with four singers and piano.