Julie Cunningham has worked professionally as a dance artist for fifteen years. After training at the Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance in London, she worked with the ballet company of Theater Koblenz, the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, and Michael Clark Company. Julie Cunningham has worked on projects with Boris Charmatz for „Musée de la Danse“ and is a guest teacher at Trinity Laban Conservatoire London and Zurich University of the Arts. In 2014 she was awarded „Outstanding Modern Performance“ at the Critics Circle National Dance Awards for „New Work“ with the Michael Clark Company. In 2016, she was nominated for the Emerging Artist Award for Choreography.

Julie Cunningham was the inaugural Leverhulme Choreography Fellow at Rambert and was part of the dance artist/curator mentorship program through Siobhan Davies Dance. In 2018, she became a New Wave Associate of Sadler’s Wells. In 2017, Julie Cunningham & Company was launched and became associate company of Rambert in 2018. Julie Cunningham’s works has been performed at London’s Barbican Centre and The Place, Dance Base Edinburgh, Tramway Glasgow, Siobhan Davies Studios, Wilderness Festival, National Theatre River Stage, Victoria & Albert Museum, Southbank Centre and Shoreditch Town Hall as part of Dance Umbrella Festival.