Julia Wilkinson Manley

School Director

Julia Wilkinson Manley began her training with Cristina Munro (London Festival Ballet, Eliot Feld) in Corpus Christi, Texas. She danced extensively with the Corpus Christi Ballet, performing soloist roles for 6 years. Julia attended the Boston Ballet Centre for Dance Education, where she studied with Tatiana Legat, Elena Solovieva and Laura Young. She trained with the Houston Ballet Academy and at the University of Oklahoma, where she received a BFA in ballet pedagogy and danced soloist roles in Balanchine’s Serenade, Miguel Terekhov’s Four Moons, Sleeping Beauty, and The Nutcracker, as Sugar Plum Fairy, as well as numerous solo roles choreographed for her by Mary Margaret Holt (Houston Ballet, San Francisco Ballet). She toured with Ballet Ireland under the direction of Gunther Falusy, and performed with David Taylor Dance Theatre and Ballet Nouveau Colorado. An award-winning choreographer, Julia premiered her first work at age 15. Her work has been performed by numerous companies, including Corpus Christi Ballet, David Taylor Dance Theatre, and Ballet Nouveau Colorado.