Biography

Flamenco dancer Julie Galle Baggenstoss “Julie Moon” works across the United States of America in flamenco education and performance. She currently tours her original shows for kids Ferdinand por farruca and Ultramar, in addition to performing before audiences of adults in tablao and theater concerts. In and near her base of Atlanta, she has performed with important arts organizations, such as the Atlanta Opera, Georgia State University’s School of Music, The Rialto Center for the Arts, The Latin American Association, Woodruff Arts Center, and the Telfair Museum in Savannah. Also, she founded and works with the non-profit, A Través, which is dedicated to long-term residencies for Spanish flamenco artists who wish to work with children and adults to connect Spanish culture and the arts in the U.S.A. Through her production company Berdolé, Julie has staffed artists, in major theaters and small venues, including world-class companies touring internationally and artists based in Atlanta who perform and teach flamenco. Having been involved in flamenco for more than 20 years, Julie is the co-founder of Jaleolé, a grass-roots marketing organization that shaped Atlanta’s flamenco landscape for a decade.

Julie teaches Flamenco as part of the curriculum of Emory University’s Dance Program, where she teaches improvisation, choreography, and technique, in a methodology she developed based on years of classes with her teachers in Seville, Spain. She is a former instructor for the Atlanta Ballet, and teaches, lectures, and gives dance performances for organizations, such as the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, the Foreign Language Association of Georgia, and Georgia Public Libraries. She is the only Flamenco artist in the Southeast listed in the curated Georgia Council for the Arts Teaching Artist Roster and the roster of the Fulton County Teaching Museum.

Julie has received professional training as a teaching artist at the Southeast Center for Education in the Arts at UTC and at Woodruff Arts Center in Atlanta, equipping her with a unique skill set to merge theoretical knowledge, practical arts experience, and Core Curriculum in programming for schools. And, she recently completed the distinguished Hatch program with C4 in Atlanta, building a skill set specifically geared toward community arts for engagement and transformation.

With an M.A. in Spanish, Julie is recognized nationally as a scholar in the field of Flamenco history. She contributed to the exhibition of 100 Years of Flamenco in New York (2013), has presented papers at the Body Questions conference on race, identity, and the art of flamenco, presented by CUNY (2018), and the bi-annual conference on Fandangos and transatlantic crossings at UCR (2017), and has been invited by the National Institute of Flamenco to speak during its annual flamenco festival in 2019. She has given countless lectures on African, Latin American, and Gypsy influences in Flamenco, including speaking to Casa de España Georgia, Georgia libraries, and universities. Her scholarship about contratiempos, African traditions, the avant-garde, and Cuban arts critic Severo Sarduy, may be read in Spaniards, Natives, Africans, and Roma: Transatlantic Malagueñas and Zapateados in Music, Song, and Dance, forthcoming by Cambridge Scholars.

Visit these websites to learn more about the work that Julie is doing. 

A Través — The only 501c3 dedicated to Flamenco arts in the state of Georgia, creating partnerships that bring Flamenco to new audiences through projects with deep, lasting connections between communities in Spain and the U.S.A.

Berdolé Management and Production — Providing production, stage, and contracting support to projects across the country.

Flamenquillo — Where you can book school shows, the arts integration arm of Berdolé, offers research-based original interactive programming that meets curriculum standards of schools, universities, and other educational organizations.