Julia Antinozzi
Julia Antinozzi, a choreographer and dance artist based in New York City, graduated from Smith College with a BA in Dance. She later obtained a postgraduate degree from Denmark’s Copenhagen Contemporary Dance School.
In 2024, Antinozzi received a Trisk Fellowship from Triskelion Arts, which culminated in the presentation and choreography of The Suite – a postmodern ballet set in a dream sequence defined by an architecture of light.
Antinozzi was also awarded a Fresh Tracks Residency at New York Live Arts, The Floor on Atlantic, New Dance Alliance, and Motive Brooklyn.
Accolades
- Fresh Tracks Residency – Artist Residency Page
- Trisk Fellowship – Triskelions Arts Fellows Page
- New York Choreographic Institute Residency – Organization’s Choreographers Announcement
- New Dance Alliance Residency
- The Floor on Atlantic Residency
- Motive Brooklyn Residency – Artist Residency Page
- Presented at the Jack Crystal Theater, Movement Research at the Judson Church
- PAGEANT, Center for Performance Research, Spoke the Hub, CHOP SHOP, Queer Spectra Arts
Julia Antinozzi will create a ballet this spring for the New York Choreographic Institute, a New York City Ballet affiliate.
Melisa Guilliams
Melisa Guilliams, out of Seattle, is a choreographer and dance artist who trained at the International Ballet Academy, Souterre Ballet, Evergreen City Ballet, and Pacific Northwest Ballet. After joining the Pacific Northwest Ballet as an apprentice in 2021, she went on to become a corps de ballet member with the company in 2022.
Guilliams’ Featured & Leading Roles consists of:
- George Balanchine – The Nutcracker
- Peter Boal – Giselle
- Donald Byrd – Love and Loss
- Jiřà Kylián – Sechs Tänze (Six Dances)
- David Parsons – Caught
- Justin Peck – The Times Are Racing
- Crystal Pite – The Seasons’ Canon
- Dwight Rhoden – Catching Feelings
- Penny Saunders – Wonderland
- Kent Stowell – Swan Lake
- Twyla Tharp – Sweet Fields
Guilliams’ Original Roles consists of:
- Annabelle Lopez Ochoa – Khepri
- Alexei Ratmansky – Wartime Elegy
- Kiyon Ross – …throes of increasing wonder
- Dani Rowe – The Window (The Watcher)
Brett Fukuda
Brett Fukuda, born in Tokyo and raised in the United States, is a choreographer and dance artist who trained at the School of American Ballet in New York City. Early on she became well versed in the Balanchine technique while performing child roles with the New York City Ballet, and later at the Kirov Academy of Ballet in Washington DC she successfully completed the Vaganova exams. Fukuda eventually became a trainee at the San Francisco Ballet School and then expanded her versatility becoming a member of the Ballet de L’Opéra National du Rhin.
Fukuda’s professional career consists of:
- Six years in the Corps de Ballet at the Boston Ballet – Varied featured roles
- Ballet de L’Opéra National du Rhin in Strasbourg, France
- Collaborated in the creation of original roles – Ballet de L’Opéra National du Rhin
- Created first main-stage solo Anonym – Ballet de L’Opéra National du Rhin
- Muse Paradox (La Plume D’Or winner from Danses avec La Plume)- choreographed 2023/2024 creation for Strasbourg Opéra House
- Speaker at Théâtre de La Ville in Paris championing inclusion and equity
