5.18 - Julian Barnett

PROCESS classes explore dance in all its forms – from choreographic practice to sound/video design to somatic training. This class is about the whole craft of choreographic production as opposed to the body in space alone. 

Julian Barnett is a choreographer, performer, arts advocate, and educator. 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, his research often revolves around notions of intimacy and examines his own mixed-raced identity as a fulcrum for poetics and activism. Julian has been fortunate to collaborate and perform with a wide range of dance/theater artists, including Steve Paxton, Jeanine Durning, Abigail Levine, Wally Cardona, Doug Elkins, Celia Rowlson-Hall, Janessa Clark, Kevin Wynn, The Metropolitan Opera with Doug Varone, Johannes Wieland's Staatstheater Kassel in Germany, and Kota Yamazaki, where he received a New York Dance and Performance 'Bessie' Award Nomination for his performance in "Darkness Odyssey II." As a choreographer, Julian's work has been presented throughout North America, Turkey, China, Japan, 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), Performática (Mexico), Tangente (Montreal), Kampnagel (Hamburg), Dansehallerne (Copenhagen), La Briqueterie (France), Dansateliers (Rotterdam), International Improvisation Dance Festival (Istanbul), Body Arts Lab (Tokyo), and the i-Dance Festival (Hong Kong), amongst others. He has created work for Hubbard Street Dance Chicago and Ormao Dance Company and been a resident artist at Springboard Danse Montreal, K3 Tanzplan Hamburg, The Joyce Theater Foundation, and the Bates Dance Festival in Maine. Julian was a danceWEB scholar at the Impulstanz Festival in Vienna, Austria and continues to share his practices internationally at the b12 Festival (Berlin), Dance Italia (Italy), Architanz (Tokyo), and more. Academically, he has taught at Princeton, CalArts, Juilliard, NYU Tisch, Middlebury, and The University of Vermont. Born in Tokyo, Japan, Julian transplanted to Northern California at seven and fell in love with breakdancing. He continued his studies at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and ArtEZ University in The Netherlands, completing his MA in Choreography/Performance Practices. Julian was a US/Japan Creative Artists Fellow, where he studied Butoh in Tokyo, Japan. He holds an MFA from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and lives/works between New York, Vermont, and Europe.