Julie-Anne Long is an award winning independent dance artist based in Sydney. Since graduating from the Victorian College of Arts in the early 1980s she has performed and choreographed on a wide range of projects with companies such as Human Veins, One Extra, Theatre of Image, Flying Fruit Fly Circus, Bell Shakespeare Company, Open City and Dance Works. From 1991-1996 Julie-Anne was Associate Artistic Director of One Extra Company with Artistic Director Graeme Watson. She has worked in a variety of dance contexts as mentor, dramaturg, curator and producer including Acting Director of dance research organisation Critical Path (2006/2007) and Dance Curator at Campbelltown Arts Centre (2009/2010). Julie-Anne has a Master of Arts (Honors) from the School of Contemporary Arts, University of Western Sydney, Nepean and in 2010 she completed a PhD at the School of English, Media and Performing Arts, University of New South Wales. Julie-Anne was awarded an Australia Council Dance Fellowship in 2007 which encompassed research, development and the realisation of a body of work entitled The Invisibility Project.