Julie Mayo has been experimenting with dance as an expansive form for over 30 years. The New Yorker has called her work “associative, sometimes absurd” and her work has been selected as a New York Times Critic’s Pick. Mayo’s dances resist easy description of lived experience and hinge on the inseparability of the comic and the tragic, the remarkable and the ordinary, and the individual and the collective. She spent ten years living in New York City where her work was presented by Roulette Intermedium, The Chocolate Factory, The Kitchen (DaP), Target Margin Theater, Gibney Dance, Movement Research at the Judson Church, New Dance Alliance, Brooklyn Studios for Dance, JACK and Dixon Place. Her work has also been presented nationally by Highways (Los Angeles), Links Hall (Chicago), Columbus Dance Theater (OH), NOHspace and Dance Mission (San Francisco), fidget space (Philadelphia) and the Firehouse Theater, art6, and Gallery5 in Richmond, Virginia. Mayo has received support for her work from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, City Artist Corps Grant, the Virginia Arts Commission and through artist residencies including Gibney’s Dance In Process (DiP), Movement Research, Center for Performance Research, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, New Dance Alliance, and nationally at UCross Foundation, Djerassi, Yaddo, Mount Tremper Arts, and Virginia Center for Creative Arts. She has been commissioned by individual artists to mentor their solo performance projects and has been a guest artist at colleges and universities. She is on faculty at Movement Research and teaches in other spaces from time to time. She currently lives in upstate New York.
