Julie Bour

Julie Bour, a native of France, started training Ballet and Contemporary dance at a very early age. After graduating from the National Dance Conservatory in Paris Julie started working as a soloist with Angelin Preljocaj (Opera de Paris, New York city Ballet, Scala de Milan). She has been awarded in NYC with a Bessie Award in 1997 for outstanding performance. She has performed works of Maguy Marin, Dominique Bagouet, Carolyn Carlson, and Jennifer Muller. She danced with several companies in Europe, traveled to Israel to work with Inbal Pinto Dance Company, and relocated to North America a few years ago. Then she explored different crossovers (e.g.: through works like Julie Taymor's Opera Grendel) and the theatrical aspect of dance. She started her own work and is currently assisting Mr Preljocaj restaging Ballets around the world. Her class incorporates all the different experiences she accumulated as a performer and assistant and will encourage you to bring details and quality in any given choreography. " Exploring new balances through energy and movement, students are encouraged to define new counterweights necessary to support directional and level change. Resulting in increased accuracy in speed and control, the goals of this class is to help the dancer being specific and unique, to allow him to form his own qualities within various choreographic styles and phrases." www.juliebour.com