MEET OUR STAFF
Julia Carr (she/her) - Artistic Director
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Julia Carr [she/her/they/them] is a multifaceted artist born in Vancouver, BC, on the ancestral and unceded territories of the Ê·mÉ™θkÊ·É™yÌ“É™m (Musqueam), sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and selÌ“ílÌ“witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) First Nations. With a diverse background spanning dance, interdisciplinary creation, education, arts administration, events coordination, and photography, Carr’s artistic endeavours blend functionality with the fantastic.
Over the past decade, she has collaborated extensively with Aeriosa, V’ni Dansi, and independent choreographers. As the co-founder of Body Narratives Collective and with significant experience in arts management, serving as Artistic Director of Dancestreams and General Manager of EDAM, Carr is dedicated to fostering a vibrant dance community and sharing her boundless enthusiasm for the art form.
Rodrigo Iniguez (he/him) - Communications Manager
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Rodrigo Iniguez is a director of photography and camera operator based in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador. Originally from Mexico, Rodrigo has proudly called Newfoundland home since 2014, where he began to do camera work for an array of local productions, from commercial work, to scripted projects and documentaries.​ Rodrigo is passionate about figuring out the best way to tell a story, developing the visual language and structure that will bring unheard voices to the forefront and allow for their message to be heard across different communities.​ In 2021, Rodrigo joined the team at Neighbourhood Dance Works, looking to assist NDW in its efforts to support and grow our arts community.
Jennifer Lynn Dick (she/her) - Festival Coordinator
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Jennifer Lynn Dick is an independent dance artist: performer, choreographer, teacher, writer, administrator, and archivist. She lives in St. John’s, NL/K’taqmkuk.
After graduating from the School of Toronto Dance Theatre she joined Desrosiers Dance Theatre, creating new works and touring nationally and internationally from 1990-2000. She worked and toured with MoonHorse Dance Theatre in Ontario and Quebec throughout the 2000’s. Jennifer has collaborated with many Canadian independent dance artists, receiving grants from the Toronto Arts Council and the Ontario Arts Council. She has performed in the rock opera, Rigoletto, in music videos 54:40’s She-La, Leonard Cohen’s Closing Time, and at the Juno’s with Cohen. She’s been involved in social justice and volunteering for over 30 years and is a founding member of the St. John’s Peace-A-Chord, is a past chair of Canadian Alliance of Dance Artists-Ontario (now CADA-East), and is a Docent and Grassroots Archivist with Dance Collection Danse. She currently serves on the board of DanceNL.
Jennifer completed her Masters in Dance from York University in 2016, focusing her research on contextualizing the ephemeral artifacts of a dead dance company with the embodied archive of a dancer. Jennifer taught Dance History and Theory for Centennial College’s inaugural Dance Performance Program from 2016-2018.