Julia Antonick
Julia Rae Antonick is a contemporary choreographer and dancer whose movement reflects a digestion of contemporary, modern and classical dance forms from American, European and Indonesian roots. Her choreography emphasizes the creation of worlds the audience can enter, disrupting ingrained patterns of attention and reawakening a viewer to a language of kinetics, filigree and somatically informed partnering work. Within their movement investigations is a deep commitment toward proximity and intimacy. Julia has been immersed in an ongoing collaboration with Jonathan Meyer and Joe St.Charles for almost two decades. With Meyer, she has served as Artistic/Executive Director for Khecari since 2010. Julia graduated from CalArts and the Chicago Academy for the Arts with the Dance Department’s Award of Excellence. Antonick has been awarded choreographic residencies at Djerassi, Ragdale, Hambidge, Links Hall, The Chicago Cultural Center, Centrum, Trillium was chosen for NEFA’s Regional Dance Development Initiative, Links Hall’s Touring project, Mordine&Co.’s Emerging Artist Program, Korespoondance’s Fillimit and presented in the 40th anniversary season at The Dance Center of Columbia College and will be presented at DancePlace in DC in 2023. She has received grants from the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, Illinois Arts Council, The Chicago Seminar on Dance and Performance, Driehaus, Donnelley, Cheney and Logan foundations, was awarded the Chicago Dancemakers Forum Lab Artist Grant for 2010, has been one of NewCity’s best choreographers and top 50 players and a nominee/honorable mention for the 3Arts award and USA Artist Fellowship. Julia has been a mentor/outside eye for Links Hall’s LinkUp and CoMission residencies, taught at Hubbard Street’s Lou Conte Dance Studios and Columbia College, and is an artist in residence at Indian Boundary Cultural Center through Khecari and the Arts Partners in Residence program. She is honored to have been working on the Anti-Racism Team for The Chicago Dancemakers Forum since 2021 and to have a collaboratively written essay coming out in a collection published by The University of Akron Press in the near future.
Profile image by: Ryan BourqueFeatured Artworks
Improvisational practice entitled "Orders from the Horse"
Photo of Julia Antonick and Jonathan Meyer by William Frederking
Duet entitled "Marginalia"
Photo of Amanda Maraist and Kara Brody by Chian-An Yuan
Installed group work entitled "Tend"
Photo of Kellyn Jackson, Enid Smith, Charlie Vail, Jordan Reinwald, and Chih-Hsien Lin by Ian Vecchiotti
Durational group work entitled "The Retreat"
Photo of John Jandernoa, Chih-Hsien Lin and Amanda Maraist by Ryan Bourque
Julia Antonick has crowd-funded a project with 3AP
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