Julia Pond is a transdisciplinary dance artist, teacher and researcher. Her work explores freedom within systems of control, intertwining dance, and political economy, with an interest in animating public spaces and participator work. She works with improvised movement and text, humour, and, sometimes, bread dough, currently in the context of her performance project and fictional company BRED. Julia is a co-initiator of the podcast DanceOutsideDance, and is currently supported by AHRC TECHNE funding for her practice-based PhD research into visceral, embodied resistance to the growth economy at Kingston University. She is a core member of the Dancing Otherwise Network: Exploring Pluriversal Practices research network and the Race/Gender Matters Research Group at Kingston University.

Specialism: Contemporary Dance, Creative Labs, Dance, Journaling/Writing, Mindfulness, Somatic, Yoga