Julian Barnett
Julian Barnett is a performer, choreographer, arts advocate and educator. Born in Tokyo, Japan, and raised in Northern California, Julian lives in New York and works frequently internationally. As a performer, he has worked with Steve Paxton, Jeanine Durning, Wally Cardona, Kota Yamazaki, Johannes Wieland, and Benoit Lachambre, as a danceWEB scholar at Implustanz in Vienna. As a bi-racial choreographer, Julian creates performances that explore the socio-political possibilities for transformation and empathy, through the lenses of philosophy, musicology, science, and the supernatural. His work has been presented by Danspace Project, PS 122, Movement Research, Joyce Theater (NY), Tangente (Montreal), Kampnagel (Hamburg), Dansateliers (Rotterdam), Danshallerne (Copenhagen), La Caldera (Barcelona), i-dance Festival (Hong Kong), and BodyArts Lab (Tokyo), amongst others. Julian was a 2015 US/Japan Creative Artist Fellow, where he studied Butoh at the Kazuo Ohno Studio, was a resident artist at K3 Tanzplan Hamburg in 2014, and a Joyce Foundation resident artist in 2010. Julian continues to teach, lecture, and mentor on practice and performance at University of Vermont, and has been a guest teaching artist at Princeton, Juilliard, NYU, Middlebury, and others. He started breakdancing as a child and continued his studies at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts in New York.