Julia Ramirez is an emerging artist currently based in Jersey City, Nj. She is a freelance artist and emerging choreographer, performing artist with Dance Visions NY and has just premiered her first evening length work, Everything, but the Kitchen Sink, in NYC at The Tank. 

 

She is a '23 graduate with her Master’s degree (Ed.M.) in Dance Education and K-12 Certificate of Eligibility with Advanced Standing at the Graduate School of Education and '22 graduate with her BFA in Dance Performance and was awarded the Margery J. Turner Choreography Award for a work of exceptional undergraduate student group choreography from Rutgers University.

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She is currently a part time lecturer at Rutgers University- Mason Gross School of the Arts, dance educator at Lehigh Valley Charter High School of the Arts in Bethlehem, PA, Washington Rock Dance in Warren, New Jersey, Mark Morris Dance Center, Brooklyn, NY and Accent School of Dance, Allentown, PA. 

 

Throughout 2024, she has become a Fellow at Washington Rock Dance, choreographed and produced her first evening-length work, Everything, but the Kitchen Sink at the Tank in NYC & Mignolo Arts Center , choreographed and presented 5;1 at Westfest NYC, performed with Dance Visions NY in Subway Windows in NYC and NY State. 

 

Throughout 2023, she completed a residency at Mark Morris Dance Center in Brooklyn, NY and presented her newest work, Kinematic Indeterminacy. She worked as the Media and Artistic Assistant of David Dorfman Dance from 2020-2023 and worked diligently as a member of their administrative team, a rehearsal assistant, a guest teacher, and a production assistant. In the summer of 2022, she co-created and taught at LEAP in New Haven, Connecticut alongside Nik Owens. 

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Since graduating from the Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Julia’s work has been featured in the 2023 92 NY Future Dance Festival, International Washington Dance Festival, Kun-Yang Lin’s Performance Series, the Koresh Artist Showcase, 92Y Emerging Choreographers Festival, Women's Day Dance Festival, Uptown Rising Performance Series, and Rutgers University. In addition to collaborating with fellow interdisciplinary artists, she has performed on stage and in films for various artists in the NYC, NJ, and PA area. She  has performed at venues such as Dixon Place, Ten Tiny  Dances, Moravian College and Point Park University.

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Julia completed her student teaching internship at Middlesex Vocational High School under the supervision of Cleo Mack. Together, they co-directed and choreographed Flux States in December of 2022 performed at New Brunswick Performing Arts Center. She has had the opportunity to work with Babs Case as a guest artist in implementing The Dancing Alphabet in K-5 public schools in Jackson, Wyoming in 2021.