Julie Potter is a dance artist, writer, arts manager and yoga teacher based in San Francisco. Currently the Community Engagement Program Assistant at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Potter curates the Smart Night Out performance program and supports the design of YBCA:You. She is also the Writer in Residence at the ODC Theater and continues her studies as part of the 2012-13 class at Wesleyan University’s Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance.

Potter was a 2011-12 Emerging Arts Professionals Fellow curating public programs in the Bay Area including Artist As Citizen, The Artist-Administrator Balancing Act and Collaborators in Situ. She was also a guest curator for Dance Discourse Project #13: Dancing in the Museum presented by Dancers’ Group, CounterPulse and the de Young Museum.

She writes about the arts for publications including San Francisco Bay Guardian and In Dance, with contemporary performance festival coverage for L.A.’s pop-up newsroom Engine28.com, Portland’s Willamette Week and New York-based Culturebot. Her blog, DanceFeast.com, facilitates seeing, doing and digesting performance. Potter was a Fellow in the 2011 NEA Arts Journalism Institute in Theater and Musical Theater at USC Annenberg, and the 2010 NEA Arts Journalism Institute in Dance at the American Dance Festival. She was also awarded a 2010 Gary Parks Emerging Writer Scholarship by the Dance Critics Association. 

In New York, Potter worked at The Juilliard School and Weber Shandwick Travel and Lifestyle Practice and in Chicago interned at The Joffrey Ballet and River North Chicago Dance. She earned a B.S. in dance and arts administration with a minor in journalism from Butler University, spending a semester in Europe.