Julia Aplin

Julia Aplin has been studying and practicing movement for over 40 years. She has an intense curiosity about the human body in motion and draws on a variety of tools and techniques in her current practice. Julia danced full time for 15 years with Dancemakers, under the Artistic Direction of Serge Bennathan performing around the world. She is an award winning choreographer and has created dances for theatres, rivers, boxing rings, wading pools, cyberspace and neuroscience labs. Julia is on faculty at University of Toronto and Centre for Indigenous Theatre teaching movement to actors. She is a consultant with PULSE research team for movement and aging at McMaster University. She was an artist in residence at the LIVElab a world class facility for the scientific study of music, sound and movement in relation to human health.

In September 2022, she led three installations for riverMOUTH with Urbanvessel and Art in the Park to offer Torontonians a closer relationship to the Cobechenonk/Humber River. She works with a wide range of people from elite performers to beginners. She has created work with the Canadian Opera Company on the Four Seasons stage and with the neighbourhood public school in the basement gym. Julia founded and led Triple C, a community dance group for creation, collaboration and community 2019-2021. She held a fellowship with rareCharitable reserve in Cambridge, Ontario and her research is focused on embodiment and kinship through human and tree relations. She is a member of Wild Soma, an artist collective for embodied World-Making.

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