Julia Carr trained with Arts Umbrella as well as Ballet BC, and received an MA in Contemporary Dance Performance from the University of Limerick in Ireland. She wields specialized vertical dance and Métis jigging skills developed over a decade of dancing professionally with Aeriosa and V'ni Dansi companies. Julia began assistant teaching at Arts Umbrella in the mid-1990s, and taught her first contemporary dance classes in a room above the curling rink in Wolfville, NS in 1999. In 2008, she began developing and borrowing exercises to support Company repertoire and pre-professional dance experiences of Dancestreams youth company. Julia Carr is an artist who braids together a livelihood as dancer, collaborative creator, educator and photographer. She has facilitated classes & workshops for professionals, students, and people of all ages in communities across the province, nation, as well as Australia. Julia’s classes offer the opportunity to tune into body sensations as well as to activate a communal space. Dancing mostly to music, we will condition our bodies to be ready. Ready to invert, move, yield, deliver weight, and respond to the moment.