Amber Julian

AMBER JULIAN is a multi-disciplinary performance artist, educator, mentor, culture bearer and community organizer. Her intention and mission is always to connect to and uplift her Afro-Indigenous roots through movement and storytelling. Because she believes that dance is a tool for healing, there is a heavy emphasis and exploration within social justice, restoration and shadow work. Amber finds great importance in creating safe spaces for all to thrive and express themselves through art. She is a professional dancer of over 20 years whose style is often described as fierce and groovy with a background and primary training in Hip Hop and House, though she considers herself a freestyle dancer. She started dancing in Mixd Ingrdnts Dance Company in 2013, an all-female collective group of artists who performed various street styles. She was a multidisciplinary artist of 7 years with Embodiment Project, a professional documentary theater dance company. She has been in collaboration with several different artists, dancers, videographers, musicians, and companies including Lenora Lee Dance. Amber has performed at several big events including APAP NY, SF Hip Hop Dancefest, Headlands Center for the Arts Open House Showcase, Carnaval, Dance Mission Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, YBCA productions, and Company full length sold-out shows held at Laney and ACT Theatre. Engulfed and skilled in all kinds of aspects of the arts, Amber is also an acrobat and choreographed and performed in the Topsy Turvy Circus for 5 years. She was the co-creator and artistic director of a teen hip hop dance crew, Seeds, at ODC school for 5 years and is currently a dance and culture professor at USF. She believes that dance is all about channeling deep rooted ancestral energy in order to heal, transmute, make change and exude dynamic forms of visual expression.