Julie Anne Long

Julie-Anne Long is an award winning independent dance artist based in Sydney. Since the mid 1980s she has performed and choreographed on a wide range of projects, with companies such as One Extra, Open City, Theatre of Image, Legs on the Wall, Flying Fruit Fly Circus, Bell Shakespeare Company and Dance Works. From 1991-1996 Julie-Anne was Associate Artistic Director of One Extra Company with Artistic Director Graeme Watson. During 2006/2007 Julie-Anne was Acting Director of Critical Path, a dance research organisation.

In recent years Julie-Anne’s dance practice has focused on solo work and dance films including ‘MissXL: Let the Dance Speak for Itself’, ‘Boxing Baby Jane’, ‘Trust and Try!’ and ‘Nuns Night Out’.  Julie-Anne is interested in making performances, which have a personal and often intimate voice, in unexpected places. ‘The Nun’s Picnic’ was a site-specific response to the village of Hill End, NSW, incorporating a collection of activities ranging from solo work, ensemble performances, video installation and writing, around a central theme, as a response to the time and people involved.

In February 2007 Julie-Anne Long was awarded an Australia Council dance fellowship and begins her two-year program in October 2007. The fellowship will encompass research, development and the realisation of a new body of work entitled 'The Invisibility Project'. The project focuses on the issues surrounding the invisibility of middle-aged women and will include a series of public performance interventions.  The works will also explore potential relationships and experimentations between video, film and the 'live' body in performance and installation.  A video portraits exhibition and critical writing will compliment the performance program.