Writing

Julie has been writing about culture since 2009, initially reporting on the performing arts for the San Francisco Bay Guardian. She was a 2019 recipient in the Art Writing Workshop — a partnership between the Arts Writers Grant Program and the International Association of Art Critics. In 2013 she was the inaugural Writer in Residence at the ODC Theater where she wrote program notes, contextual articles and provided dramaturgy for developing choreographic works on the dance campus. She also covered YBCA’s performance programs for Culturebot from an embedded role at the contemporary art center. Julie was a Fellow in the 2011 NEA Arts Journalism Institute in Theater at USC Annenberg, during which she reported for Engine28.com, a pop-up newsroom. She was also a Fellow in the 2010 NEA Arts Journalism Institute in Dance at the American Dance Festival. In 2010 she was awarded the Gary Parks Emerging Writer Scholarship by the Dance Critics Association. Her writing has also appeared in publications such as the Willamette Week, In Dance, Theatre Bay Area Magazine, Voice of Dance and Dance/USA’s e-Journal: From the Green Room.

In addition to her culture writing, Julie is an editorial specialist at Central European University in Vienna, where she works with academics, higher education institutions and university alliances to write articles that amplify social science and humanities research for the general public.

FAN MAIL

FAN MAIL is a writing series and creative gesture to celebrate dance artists who perform on the ODC Theater stage. These essays are accompanied by video of full-length works from recent season artists. FAN MAIL is based on engagement with artists onstage and in process. Featured artists:

• d. Sabela grimes

• Catherine Galasso

• Monique Jenkinson

• Yara Travieso

Grandma Program Essay

You are wearing an aqua satin parachute of a clown suit. It changes your shape. It smells musky having been in the trunk of a car during a balmy New England summer. You feel the slight pull of resistance, the studio air catching the folds of the ballooning pants. Artist Cori Olinghouse cues you to do some mental scratching. To take a walk, in this case as a “pity party clown”. The music begins. You are in clown therapy...