Julia Aplin has been studying and practicing movement for over 45 years. She has an intense curiosity about embodiment as a felt experience of being alive with the world. Julia is a multi-disciplinary artist, foundationally a dancer, also a choreographer, a theatre director, a costume designer, partly a musician, a one-time playwright, sometimes an actor, a movement teacher, a mother, a tree hugger, a fledgling poet and (soon, but not yet) an Art Therapist. Julia is particularly interested in practices of reciprocal healing with human and tree relations. Julia danced full time for 15 years with Dancemakers, under the Artistic Direction of Serge Bennathan originating new roles and 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 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 2025, she co-led performances for Twisting/Twining for the Cobechenonk/Humber River. She has created work with the Canadian Opera Company on the Four Seasons stage and with the neighbourhood public school in the basement gym. She held a research fellowship with rareCharitable reserve in her hometown, Cambridge, Ontario.