Meet Julie

Julie Lemberger, a former dancer, has photographed dance in New York City since 1992. Her photographs of diverse genres, companies, and choreographies have appeared in The New York Times, Village Voice, Dance Magazine, and other journals, blogs, and books including Yoga Bones by Laura Staton. She photographed for the 92Y and the Japan Society for near two decades, and was honored to receive a fellowship from the New York Public Library of Performing Arts’ Jerome Robbins Dance Division to research photography by Martha Swope and Jerome Robbins. Some of her notable collaborators include Edisa Weeks/Delirious Dances, Balam Dance Theatre, Molissa Fenley, Jody Sperling/Timelapse Dance, Yoshiko Chuma & the School of Hard Knocks, and Stephen Petronio among others. She has exhibited at El Barrio’s ArtSpace commemorating the Clark Center, Norte Maar, 92Y Harkness Dance, Micro Museum, Dance Theater Workshop, and Five Myles. Her children’s dance and photography project, Moving Pictures, was funded for three years by the Brooklyn Arts Council. 

Julie holds degrees in fine art, dance studies, and dance education from Brooklyn College, Empire State College, and Hunter College, and teaches photography in New York at Art of Intuitive Photography, where she specializes in embodied photography. Together with editor Elizabeth Zimmer and mentors Esmé Boyce, Roy Reid, and Cori Kresge, Julie conceived, produced, illustrated, and published her popular Modern Women: 21st Century Dance coloring book, which has sold over 1,000 copies to date! Her dance-to-photography journey is part of Movers & Shapers a dance podcast—check it out!