Julia Antonick
Dance
Chicago, IL
Julia Rae Antonick is a contemporary choreographer whose work emphasizes the creation of worlds the audience can enter, disrupting ingrained patterns of attention and reawakening a viewer to a language of kinetics, filigree and somatically informed movement work. She is also a mom (of Corbie) and embodies an unrelenting advocacy of inclusion and visibility of artists who are parents. Julia has been immersed in an ongoing collaboration with Jonathan Meyer two decades. With Meyer, she has served as Artistic/Executive Director for Khecari since 2010. Her and Jonathan’s writing was recently published along with other movement artists in NCCAkron’s collection of essays entitled “Artists on Creative Administration”. Antonick has been awarded choreographic residencies at Djerassi, Ragdale, Hambidge, Links Hall, The Chicago Cultural Center, Centrum, Trillium, was chosen for NEFA’s Regional Dance Development Initiative, Links Hall’s Touring project, Mordine&Co.’s Emerging Artist Program, Korespoondance’s Fillimit and presented at The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago, DancePlace in DC, Yates Gallery in Chicago, and the The John Michael Kohler Arts Center. She has received grants from the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, Illinois Arts Council, The Chicago Seminar on Dance and Performance, Driehaus, Donnelley, Cheney and Logan foundations, was awarded a the Chicago Dancemakers Forum Lab Artist Grant for 2010, has been one of NewCity’s best choreographers, top 50 players, and Hall of Fame and a nominee/honorable mention for the 3Arts award and USA Artist Fellowship. Julia graduated from the Chicago Academy for the Arts with the Dance Department’s Award of Excellence and received her BFA in dance from CalArts. She has been a mentor/outside eye for Links Hall’s residencies, has served on the Anti-Racist Team for Chicago Dancemakers Forum from 2021-2024, taught at Hubbard Street’s Lou Conte Dance Studios and Columbia College, and is an artist in residence at Indian Boundary Cultural Center through Khecari and the Arts Partners in Residence program.