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. 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 is a core member of the Dancing Otherwise Network: Exploring Pluriversal Practices AHRC research network and a member of the Race/Gender Matters Research Group at Kingston University.

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 was a founding member of experimental contemplative-artistic social sculpture and rural art community the Art Monastery Project (2008-2014). Julia’s performance work has been commissioned by and performed at TripSpace, SOAK Live Art, Trinity Laban (London), Barnstaple Council, Exit Festival (Roma), St John’s Smith Square, Cloud Dance Festival London, Katharine Hepburn Theatre (CT, USA), the Art Monastery (Italy), Round in Circles Productions (Margate) and others.

She has presented research at various conferences and symposia, with recent publications in Documenta Journal and a chapter on dance and degrowth in the forthcoming 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