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Julia Kane (she/her) is a proud Jazz/Contemporary Faculty member at Broadway Dance Center. She has taught for other esteemed NYC Dance Studios, as well as worked extensively with children training at levels ranging from pre-professionally to recreationally.
...Read moreJulia Kane (she/her) is a proud Jazz/Contemporary Faculty member at Broadway Dance Center. She has taught for other esteemed NYC Dance Studios, as well as worked extensively with children training at levels ranging from pre-professionally to recreationally.
With a strong knowledge and training in technical Jazz, Ballet, and Modern, her work emphasizes stylized reach and release on top of a strong technical foundation. She is currently working towards her 200 hour yoga certification, and looks forward to integrating what she learns into the dance studio.
Her dance company, Julia Kane Dance Collective, has presented four benefit shows, two of which were fully choreographed by Julia and danced by JKDC. The other two shows were in collaboration with other dance artists in NYC, including choreographers and artists who have experienced a cancer diagnosis, like herself. The company has raised funds and awareness for organizations like Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Drea's Dream Dance Therapy Programming, the National Marrow Donor Program, The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, Sunrise Association, Stupid Cancer, and others.
She has experience working with children as young as preschool age, as well as students of all ages with various physical and intellectual disabilities. She has taught and choreographed for many studios in the surrounding NYC area, and for BDC's Children and Teens Program, and has adjudicated for dance competitions around the country.
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). She is grateful for her mentors who have and continue to support her as an artist and teacher.
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.