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Meet Julia Antinozzi, Greene Fellow, Sarah Lawrence MFA Dance Program

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About Julia Antinozzi

Julia Antinozzi, is a choreographer based in New York City, working at an intersection between postmodern dance and ballet.  

​Recently named “25 to Watch” by Dance Magazine, Julia has held residencies at New York Live Arts (Fresh Tracks), Triskelion Arts (inaugural Trisk Fellowship), Works & Process, and the New York Choreographic Institute, an affiliate of the New York City Ballet, among others. Her work has also been presented by Pageant, Sugar Sugar!, Live Artery | New York Live Arts, Movement Research at the Judson Church, Center for Performance Research, New Dance Alliance, and commissioned by Arena Dances (Minneapolis, MN), New England Ballet Theatre (Hartford, CT), and The School of American Ballet.

​​​As a performer and collaborator, Julia has worked with artists including Phoebe Berglund, Boy Friday, Juli Brandano, Lavinia Eloise Bruce, Barbie Diewald, Ayano Elson, Amelia Koper Heintzelman, Shayla-Vie Jenkins, Shane Larson, Anna Sperber, Christopher Williams, and performed in repertory by Merce Cunningham and Bebe Miller.

Julia graduated from Smith College with a BA in Dance and minor in Astronomy, and holds a postgraduate diploma from the Copenhagen Contemporary Dance School. Julia was awarded the Green Fellowship at Sarah Lawrence College in 2025.

About the Greene Fellowship

The Greene Fellowship is a special two-year fellowship which provides full tuition remission and a teaching stipend to visionary artists who will lead the future of dance and cultural expression. Applicants must have 6-10 years of professional experience in the dance field post-undergraduate studies and some demonstrated prior experience teaching dance.

Julia Answers Your Questions

What brought you to apply to the MFA in Dance at Sarah Lawrence?

I was interested in the MFA program at Sarah Lawrence because of the Greene Fellowship opportunity introduced to me by John Jasperse. I have known for a while now that I am committed to a career in dance and choreography, and that in order to sustain that commitment, I need to find ways to create longevity and stability for myself. I applied for the Fellowship in the hopes that it would open up new avenues and possibilities for my future as an artist. Sarah Lawrence was particularly appealing because it offered the opportunity to pursue an MFA while continuing to live and work in NYC, where I have built my choreographic practice and community.

Tell us about the teaching you do in the program.

I enjoy teaching because it gives me a space to play with movement ideas that I am working with in my choreography. I treat the class practically as a movement based introduction into my choreographic work. We warm up the way that I warm up my body, improvise with scores that I am curious about, and work on movement material that I have either used in previous works, or am currently toying around with.

How has your experience in the program informed your dance practice?

The program has offered invaluable time to dedicate to understanding my creative choreographic practice. Life is very busy and I have not had the time to dive deep into sustained study. The program has allowed me to look more closely at the questions, interests, and methods that have shaped my work over the years. It has also encouraged me to engage more deeply with dance history, and to consider how my own practice exists in conversation within a lineage of artists.