BIOGRAPHY
Julia Ramirez is an emerging dance artist, educator, and choreographer based in
Jersey City, NJ. She holds both a BFA and a Master’s in Dance Education (K–12 CEAS)
from Rutgers University, where she was honored with the
Margery J. Turner Choreography Award.​
Her choreographic work has been featured nationally at venues including the
2025 Westfest Top Floor, 2024 All Over Westfest Festival, MODArts Dance Festival,
92NY Future Dance Festival (2023), International Washington Dance Festival,
Dumbo Dance Festival, Kun-Yang Lin’s Performance Series, Koresh Artist Showcase,
Uptown Rising Performance Series, Waxworks, and Rutgers University.
Julia is currently an adjunct lecturer at Rutgers University, and a dance educator
at the Mark Morris Dance Center, Washington Rock Dance, and Accent School of Dance.
She has served on faculty at the Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts, where
she taught modern dance and composition, and continues to work throughout the
tristate area as a guest artist and choreographer.​
As a performer, Julia currently dances with Dance Visions NY. From 2020 to 2023,
she worked with David Dorfman Dance as their Media and Artistic Assistant, contributing
across artistic, administrative, and production roles.​
In 2022, she founded JRamirez & Artists, a project-based company creating interdisciplinary
work that explores and reimagines collective histories and lived experiences. The company’s growing
repertoire includes Everything, but the Kitchen Sink,5:1, Kinematic Indeterminacy, A Subject Under
Consideration, and more. These works have been presented across NYC, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.​ Her first evening-length piece, Everything, but the Kitchen Sink, premiered at Mignolo Arts in June 2024. It was supported by the Director’s Choice Award from the 2023 Spring for Spring Festival and has been featured in the Emerging Artists Theatre’s Fall 2024 Spark Theatre Festival NYC and Rutgers University May 2025.