Julia Sasso is a choreographer, performer, master teacher and the Artistic Director of Julia Sasso dances. Ms Sasso has created more than fifty original dance works including choreography for feature film, television and theatre.
She performed internationally with Toronto's Dancemakers (1984-2000) and was the company's Assistant Artistic Director and principal teacher for a dozen years. Throughout her career she has developed her artistry through ongoing training in Skinner Releasing Technique, improvisation, Authentic Movement, theatre, voice, Pilates, ballet and contemporary dance techniques.
Highly regarded as a teacher of contemporary dance techniques, Sasso has taught internationally at distinguished learning centres including UCLA, UC Santa Barbara, Cornell University, the Canada Dance Festival, Le Groupe Dance Lab and the School of Dance (Ottawa), LADMMI (Montreal), the School of Toronto Dance Theatre, Canadian Childrens' Dance Theatre, the National Ballet School, the School of Contemporary Dancers (Winnipeg), Main Dance and Dancing on the Edge (Vancouver), L'Ecole de Danse de Quebec, Regroupment Québécois de la Danse, York University, Grant MacEwan College and Simon Fraser University; in Budapest, Mexico, England, Wales, Scotland, Austria and Germany. Sasso is a practicing certified teacher of the Skinner Releasing Technique.
