Julie is eternally interested in how we are composing ourselves in life, art and culture from the ground of bodily intelligence. She works in the medium of movement, where affect, identity, nature collide. In 2016 she initiated Place Making Body/Body Making Place, a life-long inquiry into our sensual and storied connection to place, and the inherent possibilities for reciprocity, relationship, and repair in place-based, movement-centered arts. In 2025, Julie initiated listening across species, turning to evolution as a lens for engaging meaning in movement. Julie lives and works in Central New York, on ancestral, unceded Haudenosaunee land.

Since 1996, Julie has been an initiator of and collaborator on numerous creative projects in a diversity of communities of movers. Julie was a member of dance-theatre company Margery Segal/NERVE (1998-2006), the Improvisational Movement Project, which she co-founded, and The Meeting Point, which she founded and directed from 2007-2014, all in Austin, Texas. She was co-ordinator, faculty, and performer with the integrated dance project Body Shift for five years. Noted for its “deep exploration, poetic connections, and relentless questioning of the body” by the Austin Chronicle, Julie’s stage and video work has been presented by Fusebox Festival (Working the Line, What is Common), grayDUCK gallery (SEED/BED), No Idea Festival, Forklift Danceworks (Ninetet, Just Psoas You Know), Church of the Friendly Ghost, Bodycartography Project (Embryology), New York Dance Force (Small Catastrophes), and more. Julie’s work has been supported by the Kone Foundation (as a Saari fellow, Finland, 2013 and 2015) and the Fulbright Foundation (as a Fulbright Scholar, Indonesia, 2016-2017).

Julie’s classes are influenced by a physical practice woven within and across lineages of Authentic Movement and CDP (Contemplative Dance Practice), the Amerta Movement approach of Suprapto Suryodarmo, Lisa Nelson’s Tuning Scores, Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen and the School for Body Mind Centering, Steve Paxton’s Material for the Spine, Joan Skinner’s Skinner Releasing Technique, and studies in developmental and embryological movement.  She has taught movement and dance independently for many years, as well as for Texas State University, Austin Community College, and Cornell University, bringing a critical lens to classes in modernist/post modernist technique, improvisation, creative process, and experiential anatomy. She holds an MFA in Dance from University of Texas, Austin.

Julie’s writing has been published in the Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices, Contact Quarterly and the edited volume Skinner Releasing Technique (Triarchy Press); she is the author of Whole Body/Back Body: A Handbook for Archers focused on bringing more physical awareness training to this target sport. In addition to leading community movement and dance classes, Julie is a practicing biodynamic craniosacral therapist, serving the Ithaca and Trumansburg, NY area.