Julie Shanahan

was born in Adelaide, Australia. In 1981 she graduated from the Centre for the Performing Arts. 1981-1984 she performed with the One Extra Dance Company in Sydney. 1984 she joined Rheinhild Hoffmann’s Bremen Dance Theatre till 1986 and moved with the company in 1986-1988 to the Schauspielhaus Bochum.

In 1988 she joined the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch as a dancer and remains there to the present day as a dancer and rehearsal director. She also works as a restager of Pina Bausch’s repertoire for the Pina Bausch Foundation.

In recent years she has also made creations with Tim Etchells, Alan Lucien Øyen and Rainer Behr. In 2021, she performed and toured in Robert Wilson’s piece “I was sitting on my patio this guy appeared I thought I was hallucinating”. Since 2022, she has performed and toured extensively in the piece L‘Etang, which was directed by Gisèle Vienne.