Biography

A captivating performer and creative force, Julia is dedicated to exploring the intersections between history and the contemporary world, bringing the past into the present, cutting to the core of the common human experience and in the process creating a richly sensual experience.

Photo: Rose Eichenberg, courtesy of the Isadora Duncan Dance Foundation

Julia trained at the Boston Conservatory, graduating magna cum laude in 2000 with a BFA in Dance. From 2000 to 2005 she performed in various New York productions, with, among others, Tina Croll and Andrew Jannetti. In 2001 she joined Lori Belilove’s Isadora Duncan Dance Company. During the following 4 years, she came to a deep understanding of the technique and repertory, touring, performing and teaching in the United States and Europe.

Moving to Italy in 2005, she has continued to teach and perform the Duncan work. After joining the Art Monastery Project as Director of Programming in 2007, her interest in new work has taken an interdisciplinary turn. She has performed in and collaborated in the creation of new work in Lodz, Poland and Basel, Switzerland, incorporating actors, and singers.

In 2009 she brought the Isadora Duncan Dance Company to Umbria to create and premier La Clausura Sconfinata, an hour long dance theater work (developed with the Art Monastery) that explores the paradoxical richness of cloistered life through dance, baroque music and gregorian chant. In 2010 she premiered the little difference words make a new full length work about the Sibyls and using contemporary interpretations of Duncan technique, in Rome. She currently lives in London.