Julie Eichten
Dancer / Choreographer
Eichten is a graduate of the Juilliard School, where she received the Hector Zaraspe Award in recognition of her choreography in 2011. Eichten was a founding member of L.A. Dance Project and is a current member of the American Modern Opera Company.
Julie Eichten Bio
Eichterling, an ongoing project with creative partner Bret Easterling had a premiere of their latest work, Dance in The Park, at the Ojai Music Festival, 2022.
At the start of 2023, Eichten was choreographer and the co-director of Expostulations of Mary, a new chamber opera for voices, strings, dance, and electronics with composer Eliza Bagg and director, George R. Miller. Eichten performed and was movement director in Carolyn Chen’s How to Fall Apart, at Baryshnikov Art Center, NYC. Last year, at the Frieze Art Festival, Eichten performed an excerpt of, Julie with a Beet, as a part of Open Studios at L.A. Dance Project, Los Angeles.
“This smart choreographic rhythm by Eichten is the kind of dance that you always want to stumble upon and be taken by surprise with.”
Eichten performed in Bobbi Jean Smith's Broken Theater at Carolina Performing Arts, Chapel Hill, NC & Oz Arts, Nashville and most recently to a sold out run at La Mama, NYC.