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Julia Kane (she/her) is a proud Jazz/Contemporary Faculty member here at Broadway Dance Center. She is the Artistic Director of NYC based company Julia Kane Dance Collective, Long Island dance studio Canvas Dance Arts, and is an adjudicator for One Beat Dance Brands. With a vast knowledge and training in technical Jazz, Ballet, and Modern, her work emphasizes stylized reach and release on top of a strong technical foundation.
...Read moreJulia Kane (she/her) is a proud Jazz/Contemporary Faculty member here at Broadway Dance Center. She is the Artistic Director of NYC based company Julia Kane Dance Collective, Long Island dance studio Canvas Dance Arts, and is an adjudicator for One Beat Dance Brands. With a vast knowledge and training in technical Jazz, Ballet, and Modern, her work emphasizes stylized reach and release on top of a strong technical foundation.
As a cancer survivor, Julia strives to educate audiences on the needs and experiences of cancer patients through her work. In the last 6 years, Julia Kane Dance Collective has produced three shows which raised a total of over $10,000 for Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Most recently, Choreographers' Collective brought awareness to MSK's Dance Therapy program, as well as the National Marrow Donor Program.
In her time as a student at BDC, she has had the honor of assisting and learning from many of BDC’s renowned faculty and mentors, most notably including Michelle Barber, Sheila Barker, Ginger Cox, and Jamie Salmon.
Julia holds a BFA in dance, is a graduate of the BDC Professional Semester, and of Long Island HS for the Arts (under direction of Janice Aguilera and Shirlene Blake). As an educator, she has experience working with children as young as preschool age, as well as students of all ages with various physical and developmental disabilities. She has taught and choreographed for many studios in the surrounding NYC area, and for BDC's Children and Teens Program.
Follow Julia on instagram @JuliaKaneDanceCollective.
Class Descriptions
Julia’s class begins with a structured, progressive warm up that emphasizes technique and flexibilty. Following warmup, class moves into choreography that is dynamic and energized - be prepared to get moving, and to let that tension go! Julia's choreography emphasizes moving with a freeness of the upper body, specifically focusing on the fluidity of the head, neck, and spine. Her style incorporates classic jazz techniques and lines with more contemporary based movement and release.
Julia's Jumps and Turns class focuses on breaking down the technical elements behind the more basic, through advanced repitoire of jumps and turns. After a structured and progressive Jazz warmup, class will focus on exercises to strengthen technique, and cumulate in the practice of incoproating jumps and turns into choreography.