Julian Barnett is a choreographer, performer, arts advocate, and educator. His work explores the social-political possibilities for transformation and empathy, often examining intimacy and his mixed-race identity as fulcrums for inquiry. Julian’s work has been presented throughout the US, Canada, Mexico, China, Turkey, Japan, and extensively across Europe. Select presentations include Danspace Project, Gibney, La Mama (NY), Jacob’s Pillow (MA), Tangent (Montreal), Performatica (Mexico), La Briqueterie (France), Kampnagel (Germany), i-Dance Festival (Hong Kong), International Improvisation Festival (Istanbul), and the Body Arts Lab’s Whenever Wherever Festival (Tokyo). Julian has been a resident artist at Bates Dance Festival in Maine, Springboard Danse in Montreal, K3 Tanzplan Hamburg in Germany, and The Joyce Foundation in New York. He received a New York Dance and Performance ‘Bessie’ Award Nomination for Sustained Achievement in Performance, a US/Japan Creative Artist Fellowship, and was a danceWEB Scholar at the Impulstanz Festival in Vienna. Julian has been fortunate to work with a variety of dance/theater artists, including Abigail Levine, Jeanine Durning, Julie Mayo, Steve Paxton, Kota Yamazaki, Wally Cardona, , Doug Elkins, Johannes Wieland/Staatstheater Kassel, The Metropolitan Opera with Doug Varone, amongst others, and filmmakers Tori Lawrence, Janessa Clark, and Cecilia Rowlson-Hall. Julian continues to share his practices internationally as a guest teaching artist at Gibney (NY), b12 Berlin (Germany)), Dance Italia (Italy), ArtEZ (Netherlands), Architanz Tokyo (Japan), and academically at Princeton, NYU Tisch, Juilliard, Cal Arts, Middlebury, and the University of Vermont.
[ID: Performance photo of Julian wearing a dark mesh top and black skirt. He balances on one foot with both palms offered towards the audience. Behind him hangs a shiny silver fabric]
