Julie Mayo is a New York-based choreographer who makes dances that foreground body level communication that is simultaneously intelligible and inexplicable and hinges on the inseparability of the comic and the tragic, the ordinary and the remarkable, and the individual and the collective. For Julie, choreography is a medium disposed toward felt experience, embodied paradox, and getting in to get out to get down. It is an opportunity for performer and audience to consider ourselves, intimately, unnameable. Her work has been presented in New York at JACK, Gibney Dance, The Chocolate Factory Theater, The Kitchen (Dance and Process), Movement Research at the Judson Church, Dixon Place, Center for Performance Research, Danspace (Draftwork), Brooklyn Studios for Dance, Target Margin Theater, New York Live Arts (Fresh Tracks), and The Elizabeth Harris Gallery alongside the work of visual artist James Biederman. Nationally, her work has been presented at Highways Performance Space (Los Angeles), NOHspace and Dance Mission (San Francisco), Links Hall (Chicago), Columbus Dance Theater (Columbus, OH), fidgetspace (Philadelphia), and in several venues in Richmond, Virginia, where she’s from originally.

Julie’s work has been supported in NYC by a 2023 LiftOff Residency, 2020-2021 Gibney DiP (Dance in Process) artist residency, as well as artist residencies at Movement Research (2017-2019), Snug Harbor’s PASS Program (2019) and the Center for Performance Research (2018). She is a recipient of a Foundation for Contemporary Art’s Emergency Grant as well as a grant from Virginia Commission for the Arts. She has been awarded residencies at UCross Foundation, Djerassi, Yaddo, Mount Tremper Arts, Snug Harbor, and Virginia Center for Creative Arts.

Julie teaches at Movement Research (NYC), as well as her own and other platforms. She has been a guest choreographer at university and community-focused programs, and has been commissioned by independent choreographer / performers to mentor their work.