Julia Pond is a transdisciplinary artist, facilitator, and researcher. Her work explores intersections between dance and political economy with improvised movement and text, humour, and, sometimes, bread dough, as well as through academic writing and research. Julia is currently supported by AHRC TECHNE funding for her practice-based PhD research at Kingston University entitled Re-articulating Value: Embodied Pathways to Sustainability. She was a core member of the Dancing Otherwise Network: Exploring Pluriversal Practices AHRC research network and is a member of the Race/Gender Matters Research Group at Kingston University.
Julia’s making, initially concerned with movement, music, and myth exploring material like nuns and Sibyls, and collaborating with early/ baroque musicians, is now focused on experimental performance, via her installation BRED, and new performance Off Peak. Her work has been commissioned by and performed at the Science Museum, TripSpace, SOAK Live Art (Plymouth), Trinity Laban (London), Barnstaple Council, Exit Festival (Rome), St John’s Smith Square, Cloud Dance Festival London, Katharine Hepburn Theatre (CT, USA), Comune di Narni, the Art Monastery (Italy), Round in Circles Productions (Margate) and others.She was also founding member of experimental contemplative-artistic social sculpture and rural art community the Art Monastery Project (2008-2014).
As a performer Julia has worked with visual and dance artists including Serena Korda, Julie-Rose Bower, Colleen Bartley, Zorka Wollny, Tina Croll and in Lori Belilove’s Isadora Duncan Dance Company (2001-2005), Isadora Duncan Dance Group London / Paris (2011-2016) and her own Duncan Dance Project (2014-2018) performing in venues like Symphony Space, Wellcome Collection, Kalamata Dance Festival, Ballet Meetings Festival (Lodz) Joyce Soho, Long Center Austin. Teaching credits include Independent Dance, Bath Spa University, TripSpace, Playground Rambert, Lincoln University, Intercultural Roots, People’s Friendship University Moscow, and others throughout the UK and Europe.
She has presented research at various conferences and symposia, with recent publications in Documenta Journal and a chapter on dance and degrowth in the edited volume Dialogues for Degrowth. Julia was a co-organiser of the Isadora Duncan International Symposium between 2014-2018, which brought Duncan practitioners together to share work and develop best practices. Julia holds an MFA Creative Practice: dance professional from Trinity Laban / Independent Dance and an MA in International Relations. From 2010-2019 she had a parallel career as a director of content for travel tech companies Trip.com and Skyscanner. She is a mother.
Contact: info@juliapond.com