Moving Through Air, Moving Through Life: 60 Years of Dance

🎙️ Dance Chat x Julie Ludwick

In this episode, aerial modern pioneer Julie Ludwick shares her 60-year dance journey — from Alaskan ballet studios to founding Fly-by-Night Dance Theater in NYC. We talked about somatics, improvisation, grief, sustainability in the arts, and what it means to keep creating across a lifetime.

🔥 Topics include:

• Discovering aerial dance and shaping a hybrid modern–trapeze language
• Somatic practice: imagery, intuition, tension release, and moving from within
• Dance as healing through personal loss and transition
• The realities of running a nonprofit company (grants, admin, burnout)
• Diversity in dance spaces + bringing street dancers into aerial work
• Advice for dancers: train smart, follow intuition, develop multiple skills
• Balancing art with financial stability across decades

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