Choreographer, director and performer Julia Taffe was born in Toronto and raised in Ontario,Alberta, Manitoba and Yukon. Her ancestry is Jamaican/Irish-Polish. She lives in Ucluelet, BC, which is situated on Yuułuʔiłʔath territory.
20 years ago, Julia founded of Aeriosa Dance Society, a BC-based non-profit which uses rope-and-harness rigging to ‘dance on earth in air’, with trees, on buildings and in the theatre.
Since2001 Julia and her collaborators have created more than 101 site dance performances for landmarks including Stanley Park (Vancouver), Pacific Rim National Park, Stawamus Chief Mountain (Squamish BC), Taipei City Hall, ShaTin Town Centre (Hong Kong), Paklenica National Park (Croatia) Cirque du Soleil(Montreal), Vancouver Library Square, The Banff Centre, and the L Tower (Toronto).
Julia was awarded the Dance Victoria Chrystal Dance Prize for International Collaboration (2023), the Isadora Award for Excellence in Choreography (2018) and the Canadian Dance Assembly Innovation Award (2012). She attained Association of Canadian Rock Guide certification in 1997.
