Julie Ludwick (MFA, MA) has created dozens of dances for Fly-by-Night Dance Theater for numerous NYC venues including The Flea Theater, PS 122, Dixon Place, The Kitchen, and Mabou Mines Theater as well as colleges around the U.S.. In 2022 Ludwick’s evening-length work, Where Shall I Send My Joys? was presented by the CUNY Dance Initiative and the Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College. The company’s repertory has evolved to include evening-length pieces with video projection, theater, and live original music.

Ludwick’s Somatic Aerial Dance Technique has been featured in Dance Magazine, Paper Magazine, Time Out NY, and in a video documentary from AfterEd TV as an outstanding alum of Teachers College, Columbia University. After taking her classes, participants feel more fluid, elevated, and kinesthetically in tune with their whole self. They are ready to reach beyond what they thought was possible.

Ludwick currently teaches community classes for Fly-by-Night, is on the performing arts faculty at Wagner College in Staten Island, NY, has taught Somatic classes as part of the Paul Taylor School’s Winter and Summer Intensives and offers private somatic sessions for adults.

Her theater credits include work for Mapou Production’s “How Papa Noel Forgot Haiti” at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall starring Danny Glover.  Her work has received support from: NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, Mabou Mines Artists’ Suite, The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Meet the Composer, The Puffin Foundation, Frances Alexander Family Fund, Northern Manhattan Artist Alliance, The Cartwheel Foundation, The Kathryn and Ador Elnes Fund, The LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, The New York City Council, and City Artists Corps, among others.

Photo above: Fred Hatt