JULIE SHANAHAN

Julie Shanahan was born in Adelaide, Australia in 1962. She completed all her RAD classical ballet examinations and earned a BA degree in contemporary dance and choreography.

Shanahan worked for two years at the Sydney-based One Extra Dance Company and Darwin Dance Mob before moving to Germany in 1984, where she worked as a soloist dancer till 1988 with Reinhold Hoffmann’s Bremen Dance Theater and the Schauspielhaus Bochum.

In 1988, she joined the Tanztheater Wuppertal as a soloist dancer. Besides her role as dancer, she is also a rehearsal director for a number of Pina Bausch repertory pieces, including The Rite of Spring.