As a professional dancer for 18 years, Britt Juleen spent most of her career in Europe at the Dutch National Ballet in Amsterdam and Germany’s SemperOper Ballet’s exquisite Opera House. She also performed with Ballet Arizona, Ballet Gamonet in Miami, Florida, and the contemporary dance companies iMEE, Jacoby&Pronk, and SFDanceworks. Britt studied at the School of American Ballet, New World School of the Arts, Pacific Northwest Ballet School, and Houston Ballet Academy. She has studied Somatic Movement Education through the School for Body-Mind Centering, is ABT teacher certified, and holds an MFA in Dance from Hollins University. She is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Iowa.

Ms. Juleen has taught extensively across the San Francisco Bay Area including the company and schools associated with ODC Dance Company, Oakland Ballet Company, and Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet. She served as the Artistic Director for Berkeley Ballet Theater, was a full-time professor at San Jose State University and adjunct professor at Saint Mary’s College, and Hollins University. Her approach to teaching and choreography is greatly influenced by alternative studies of experiential anatomy and she is a certified Somatic Movement Educator through the School for Body-Mind Centering. Somatic approaches to movement exploration allow her to enrich her teaching of traditional ballet technique with a contemporary sense of authentic expression and kinesthetic development.