Julia Taffe arrives today to begin the second week of her six-week residency in Newfoundland and Labrador.

This unique residency program takes place in Corner Brook, St. John’s and Gros Morne National Park. It is made possible through a partnership between Memorial University, Grenfell Campus, Dance NL and Creative Gros Morne.

Come by the Bonne Bay Marine Station Thursday night to see Julia’s presentation and meet the dancer.

Public Talk
Bonne Bay Marine Station
Thursday, 15 September, 7-9pm

And stay tuned to VOBB to hear Julia’s interview on Thursday morning.

Julia will deliver a workshop Dancing in Nature during her two-week stay in Gros Morne National Park. Dates will be announced in the next few days.

Julia Taffe watches on as participants try out vertical dancing in her workshop this weekend at Grenfell Campus, Memorial University in Corner Brook.

Ms Taffe trained professionally at the School of Winnipeg Contemporary Dancers, Royal Winnipeg Ballet and Toronto Dance Theatre. She is the second woman to achieve the Association of Canadian Mountain Guides Rock Guide certification. As well, she has worked as a climbing guide, instructor, coach, rigger, stunt performer and mountain safety technician for film and TV productions from British Columbia to Morocco.

Julia Taffe and her Vancouver based company, Aeriosa. recently received the Artist Choice award from the Kevin Sapcey Foundation for their work Pseudotsuga – Earth to Sky:

“Pseudotsuga – Earth to Sky is an interspecies collaboration between vertical dancers, live musicians and a grove of old-growth trees in Vancouver’s Stanley Park. As part of a larger project acknowledging the park as traditional Coast Salish territory, Psuedotsuga calls attention to the oldest trees in the park as living witnesses connecting dancers of the past, present and future.”