Julia Jamieson

About me:

As a dancer Julia Jamieson began her training with The Academy of Dance, Brantford. Here she trained with renowned ballet instructor, Martha Hicks www.mhsb.ca and competed across Canada and the United States in jazz, tap, ballet and lyrical. She furthered her dance theatre training at the Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta where she performed in such contemporary dances as Light & Shadow and Misabi under the instruction of Alejandro Ronceria, co-Director of Earth in Motion, World Indigenous Dance www.earthinmotion.com; Raoul Trujillo of “Apocalypto” www.raoultrujilloinfo.com; and Muriel Maguel of Spiderwoman’s Theatre. Highlighted stage performances include Copenhagen, Denmark’s International Theatre Festival; TRIBE the Musical, Minnesota; BONES Dance Opera, Banff; Spirits in the Sun Festival, Phoenix, Arizona; DREAMWEAVERS, Ottawa produced by Tom Jackson; and musical Garden Behind the Moon, Brantford directed by CATS, Germany Director Teri Seymour. She was a dancer/actor in See and Hear the World, a documentary series broadcast on Bravo! television network in 1998 as choreographed by Santee Smith www.kahawidance.org. Julia was also cast as Narrator in the 2008 Harbourfront production of Smith’s A Story Before Time, alongside dancer/actor Alex Meraz of “Apocalypto” and “Twilight’s, New Moon”. Julia continues her over 8-years of travel as the native poetess, E. Pauline Johnson, delivering theatrical recitations by the writer and bohemian. Influenced by Johnson, Julia choreographed WAVEMAKER, a 4-female cast of dancers under the mentorship of Alejandro Ronceria at Toronto’s Winchester Street Theatre. She co-produced and provided vocals for Wavemaker soundtrack with sound engineer, Tim Isherwood, Toronto. Julia is currently continuing development of this piece for film adaptation. Julia has also received a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Education with YORK University. In addition, she has sat on the jury for both Ontario Arts Council and The Canada Council for the Arts for which she has been awarded funding grants for her arts creations in dance. Her most recent choreography, Tobacco Ties, was picked up by Toronto’s Native Earth Performing Arts’ Weesageechak Festival XVIII, performed at Dancemaker’s Centre for Creation in Toronto’s Distillery District where she received favourable nods from her mentors and peers, “...a performance that is widely considered the hit of the festival. It was smart, funny, and emotional, like the artist herself” (Yvette Nolan, Artistic Director Native Earth)