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“Superbly played for maximum comic impact…”
Brian McCormick, Gay City News

“It’s like Scores, only in reverse. This time, it’s the dancer who’s shoveling out the bills.”     
Barbara Hoffman, New York Post
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Sara Juli’s The Money Conversation is a 60 minute solo performance piece in which the artist confronts her own troubled relationship with money by giving it all away. Juli has cashed in all of her life savings and brings it to the theater, in cash, each evening and performs with it onstage. Through monologue, movement, and audience interaction she explores the way money permeates our thoughts and behavior, and how it influences our culture in the obvious and not-so-obvious ways. “There is money in my right pant pocket. Take it. It’s for you,” she says as she lies down across a row of seats and invites an audience member to put his hand in her pocket. “How much is it?” she says as she returns to the stage, “How much is it? How much is it? How much is it?” Juli fuses text, movement, humor, and voice to make fun of universal emotions stemming from her own inadequacies. Her unique movement style and the quirky delivery of her comedic insights make her work engaging and compelling.

Sara Juli’s mission is to explore her own personal struggles through the medium of performance. In sharing her work, Sara is hopeful that others will understand an aspect of her personal turmoil, and be able to relate it to their own. Her introspective solo performance fuses movement, text, song, voice and gesture to both acknowledge the gravity of her burdens as well as to simultaneously laugh at their reality.

Sara Juli has been creating and performing solo work in New York City for the past six years. Past solo work has been performed at New York City venues including Dixon Place, Performance Space122, The Ontological Theater, Manhattan Theater Source, Williamsburg Art NeXus, The Flea Theater, Joyce SoHo and Joe’s Pub as part of the Dancenow/NYC Festival, Movement Research at Judson Church, Danspace Project, and the American Dance Festival. She has collaborated and/or performed with Debra Fernandez, Deborah Hay, Roxana Ramseur, Melissa Riker, Hana van der Kolk, and Chris Ajemian. She graduated from Skidmore College with a degree in Dance and Anthropology.

From 2000 to early 2003, Sara was the Manager and Dance Program Coordinator at Dixon Place, where she created and co-curated, along with Alexx Shilling, the dance series, Body Blend from 2001-2004. Sara is the creator and co-curator, along with Jake Hooker, of The Bridge, a dance-theater series produced by Williamsburg Art NeXus and presented at University Settlement, where the mission is to challenge and critique the boundaries of the form. Sara is currently the Campaign Manager at Dance Theater Workshop. She graduated from Skidmore College with a degree in Dance and Anthropology.

Previous solos: Righteous Indignation (2001), Five of my Forty Million Parts (2002), Burden (2003), How to Forgive Yourself in Bed (2003), and Shadow Artist (2004).

The Money Conversation was made possible, in part, by the Jerome Foundation and was first work-shopped at Danspace Project as part of the DraftWork series.

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Sara Juli Biography

Sara Juli (Creator/Performer) is a dancer, choreographer, arts manager, curator, and producer of dance in New York City. The Money Conversation premiered at P.S. 122 in Feb, 2006 and was presented at the Noorderzon Festival in Groningen, Holland this past August. The American Dance Festival commissioned and premiered her newest work, “Deep Throat,” this past July. Juli has presented her solo work at the Dance Complex in Cambridge, Mass, Skidmore College in Sarasota, NY, and in New York City at Dixon Place, The Ontological Theater, Manhattan Theater Source, Williamsburg Art NeXus, The Flea Theater, Joyce SoHo, Joe’s Pub as part of the Dancenow/NYC Festival, Movement Research at Judson Church, and the Danspace Project. Her work was selected as one of “The Best of Dance 2003” by the Independent Weekly from performances at the American Dance Festival that year. Juli has collaborated and/or performed with Debra Fernandez, Deborah Hay, Roxana Ramseur, Melissa Riker, Hana van der Kolk, and Chris Ajemian.

From 2000 to early 2003, Juli was the Manager and Dance Program Coordinator at Dixon Place, where she created and co-curated, along with Alexx Shilling, the dance series, Body Blend from 2001-2004. Juli is the creator and co-curator, along with Jake Hooker, of The Bridge, a dance-theater series produced by Williamsburg Art NeXus and presented at University Settlement, where the mission is to challenge and critique the boundaries of the form. Juli is currently the Director of Institutional Giving at Dance Theater Workshop In New York City. She graduated from Skidmore College with a degree in Dance and Anthropology.

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