Julie is the artistic director of the 14-year-running Asheville Butoh Festival. She has been creating, performing, and teaching dance in the US, Europe, Asia, and Mexico for over 40 years. She has practiced Butoh for 27 years.  Participants will explore the anatomical possibilities of their everyday bodies through floating, hanging, and varied qualities of movement and stillness, Noguchi Taiso, and exercises from the “13 Aspects of Butoh.”