Julie Mayo is a New York-based choreographer and performer. Her work has been called “associative, sometimes absurd” by The New Yorker and has been featured in The New York Times. Mayo’s dances resist easy description of lived experience and hinge on the inseparability of the comic and the tragic, the ordinary and the remarkable, and the individual and the collective. She has been commissioned by individual artists to mentor their solo performance projects and teaches Releasing Technique (Skinner-based) and Creative Practice/Making Dances classes. Her work has been presented in New York by Roulette Intermedium, Target Margin Theater, The Chocolate Factory, The Kitchen (DaP), Gibney Dance, Movement Research at the Judson Church, Brooklyn Studios for Dance, JACK and Dixon Place and nationally by Highways in Los Angeles, Columbus Dance Theater (OH), NOHspace and Dance Mission in San Francisco, and several venues in her hometown of Richmond, Virginia. Mayo has received the Dance In Process (DiP) Artist Residency at Gibney Dance and has been an artist-in-residence at Movement Research, Center for Performance Research, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, and New Dance Alliance (NYC) and nationally at UCross Foundation, Djerassi, Yaddo, Mount Tremper Arts, and Virginia Center for Creative Arts. She is currently on faculty at Movement Research.
