Emrys trained at the Australian Conservatoire of Ballet which lead to a career with the Royal New Zealand Ballet. After retiring, he started teaching and choreographing ballet and contemporary works in the post-classical and post-modern balletic style.

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In 2019, he started Brisbane Ballet as a choreographic project to workshop a new piece that could be performed to the public, but the project soon became bigger than anticipated. Brisbane Ballet became a ballet company and in the first season he choreographed 3 different pieces.

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Notable works include Re:member, Transcendence, Equilibrium, Entropy, Torsion, Mixtape 88, Spectrum, Isolation and In Flux.