Emma-Jane Greig is the Artistic Director of hip hop theatre company Body Politic. Founded in Oxford in 2012, Body Politic are committed to creating issue-based work. The company create through performance and participation.

Body Politic work with artists from primarily diverse communities. The company produce evocative dance theatre work. By implementing ambitious outreach programmes, the team seek to address the imbalance in representation of artist of Black and Asian origin and hip hop theatre as an art form.

Body Politic are the first independent female led Hip Hop dance theatre company to have toured outside of London in 2019.

“Body Politic’s Father Figurine should be celebrated as one of the first full- length Hip Hop theatre works from a Hip Hop company based outside London that has multiple tour dates across southern England.”  – Ian Abbott, Writing About Dance.