most notable: performing in Cirque du Soleil
most meaningful: performing my own work

Tere O'Connor Dance, Batsheva Dance Company, Sasha Waltz, Netherlands Dance Theater

(some of these are performance artists) Tere O'Connor, Ohad Naharin, Meredeth Monk, Laurie Anderson, Klaus Nomi, Marina Abramovic, Leigh Bowery

Tetsuo: The Iron Man, You and Me and Everyone We Know, Harold and Maude, American Beauty

Radiohead, Bjork, Blonde Redhead, The Cure, The Kills, Fischerspooner, The Books, Chicks on Speed

What? There's life outside of dance?

My Life by Isadora Duncan, Solitary Song by Pauline Koner, Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

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My fascination with movement began with gymnastics then shifted to dance in college. While completing my BA in dance at UNLV, I performed as an acrobat/dancer in the Las Vegas shows, Imagine and Les Folies Bergere. For the month of August 2000, I performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, a trip which introduced me to European aesthetics in contemporary dance. I spent a year and a half in Tokyo working as and aerialist for Disney before traveling to Montréal for creative workshops with Cirque du Soleil. Here I played the role of test-dummy/creative contributor in the building of the multimillion-dollar production that became KA at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. KA's choreographer Jacques Heim invited me to do a brief project with his LA based company Diavolo Dance Theater, before returning to Las Vegas to perform as a dancer/acrobat/stunt person in KA for two years. During this time, I created my own work for the Dance in the Desert Festival, and Nevada Dance Project, and also returned to UNLV as a guest artist. In Dec. 2006, I moved to New York to pursue my own work. Here I have shown my short solos at Studio A.I.R, Green Loft Performance Salon, Triskelion Arts, Abrons Arts Center, Spoke the Hub, the Dumbo Dance Festival, the Cool New York Dance Festival, the New Steps Series, the Bushwick Starr, Dance New Amsterdam, MonkeyTown, Galapagos Art Space, and The Living Theatre. Recently I did an uninvited guerrilla performance at Judson Church, so it's questionable whether or not Judson should be on my list of venues. My first full-length piece 'do not disconnect' premiered at the Onyx Theatre in Las Vegas in May 2008. This project was the first in an ongoing collaboration with video artist and musician Jarryd Lowder. Aside from my own work, I currently dance for the New York based music group, Fischerspooner. www.juliefotheringham.org

intelligence, maturity, commitment, presence, depth

vanity, obsessiveness about appearance

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