Julian Barnett (he/him)

Julian Barnett is a choreographer, performer, arts advocate, educator, and father. He works collaboratively across disciplines to create performances that examine the social-political possibilities for transformation and empathy. Through the lenses of philosophy, musicology, science, and the supernatural, Julian's research often revolves around notions of intimacy within performance and examines his own Japanese American mixed-raced identity as a fulcrum for inquiry and activism. Julian's work has been presented throughout North America, Asia, and extensively across Europe. Invitations include Danspace Project, Gibney Dance, La Mama, Movement Research at Judson Church, The Joyce Theater (NY), Jacob's Pillow (MA), Hubbard Street Dance Chicago (IL), Performática (Mexico), Tangente (Montreal), Kampnagel (Hamburg), Dansehallerne (Copenhagen), La Briqueterie (France), Dansateliers (Rotterdam), Body Arts Lab (Tokyo), International Improvisation Dance Festival (Istanbul), and the i-Dance Festival (Hong Kong), amongst others. He has been a Resident Artist at Springboard Danse Montreal, K3 Tanzplan Hamburg, The Joyce Theater Foundation in New York, and the Bates Dance Festival in Maine. As a performer, Julian has been fortunate to collaborate and perform with a wide range of dance/theater artists, working with Steve Paxton, Jeanine Durning, Laurel Jenkins, Abigail Levine, Paul Besaw, Wally Cardona, Kota Yamazaki, Doug Elkins, Larry Keigwin, Kevin Wynn, Johannes Wieland’s Staatstheater Kassel in Germany, and the Metropolitan Opera with Doug Varone. Julian was a danceWEB scholar at the Impulstanz Festival in Vienna, Austria, and received a New York Dance and Performance 'Bessie' Award Nomination for Performance, a Vermont Arts Council Creation Grant, and a US/Japan Creative Artist Fellowship, where he studied Butoh in Japan. Born in Tokyo, Japan, Julian was raised in Northern California and began breakdancing as a child. He continued his studies and earned his BFA at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, and completed his MA in Choreography/Theatre Practices from ArtEZ University in The Netherlands. Julian holds an MFA from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and is an Assistant Professor of Dance and Theater at The University of Vermont.

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Julian Barnett lives through choreography, performance, arts education and advocacy. His artistry explores the socio-political possibilities of transformation and empathy, portals which are most important to the nature of being human.