Julian Donahue is a Brooklyn-based choreographer and a dancer with New York Theatre Ballet where he has danced masterworks by Jerome Robbins, Merce Cunningham, José Limón, Michel Fokine, Antony Tudor, Richard Alston, Pam Tanowitz, Nicolo Fonte, James Whiteside, David Gordon, and Martha Clarke. Julian also specializes in Baroque, Renaissance, and folk dance forms, performing with New York Baroque Dance Company and Boston Early Music Festival. He has performed Baroque dance at Lincoln Center (May 2023) and the Kennedy Center (May 2024). In 2021, Julian founded Julian Donahue Dance to create and showcase dances that express transformational political ideas, tell stories, and expand the public imagination. Julian has presented work at Battery Dance Festival, White Wave Dance Festival, Blue Hill Bach Festival, and more. A section of Julian’s choreography will be presented in the Opera Lafayette production of Les Fêtes de Thalie where he will dance and serve as Assistant Choreographer at the Kennedy Center in May 2024. In June 2024, Julian’s version of Midsummer Night’s Dream will premiere in Boston along with a new work set to Beethoven’s 6th Symphony with live music from the Arpeggione Ensemble.