About

Julie Kurris is a performer and music-theatermaker based in Amsterdam. She studied drama at KASK in Ghent and did her master musictheater at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague in collaboration with the Veenfabriek. Within her art she is looking to implement her daily engagement in a playful way, using a mixture of music, performance and image. To do this she looks for collaborations to mix her knowledge with her co-creators into interdisciplinary realms.

Currently Julie is working as a researcher in transdisciplinary education in Avans. She studied social and cultural anthropology during Covid in which she specialized on rituals regarding the relationship between humans and the earth and its consequences in Nicaragua.. The overlap of academic research implemented in society are a new exploration field to adopt in her artistic work. In this way she wants to expand her engagement towards the climate crisis, feminism and social injustice. She is advising other makers in their work with literature and knowledge and organises a climate festival: Hot Stuff.

Apart from making her own art she is an interdisciplinary performer, both in music as in theater. She performs texts in a musical way or uses her body to dive in abstraction. She was playing as a child in de Kopergietery in Gent, performed for Simon De Vos, Frans van der Aa, Paul Koek, Huba De Graaff, Karlijn Hamer ea. She performed nationally and internationally (Japan, Canada, Spain)