Emery LeCrone was raised in Greensboro, North Carolina, where she began her dance training at the Greensboro Ballet. She continued her training at the North Carolina School of the Arts with Melissa Hayden, and attended several summers at the School of American Ballet on scholarship. After graduation she joined the North Carolina Dance Theater, where she performed in works by George Balanchine, Dwight Rhoden and Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux. After moving to New York in August 2007, she performed with Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company in its inaugural City Center Season, and is currently dancing with the Metropolitian Opera Ballet in La Gioconda, The Magic Flute and Adriana Lecouvreur.

Emery is also a choreographer whose works were performed by the North Carolina Dance Theater as well as at the Chautauqua Summer Gala, Ballet Builders and the New York City Ballet for Greensboro Ballet Gala Stars at Night. Most recently, she choreographed a ballet for the National Choreographers Initiative directed by Molly Lynch. This is her second season of performing with New Chamber Ballet, where her roles include parts in Klavierstück, Dreams and Arachnophilia.