Julie Atlas Muz

Miss Exotic World and Miss Coney Island 2006, Julie Atlas Muz is one of the most acclaimed and prolific conceptual performers and choreographers in New York.

She sucker punches the boundaries between performance art, dance and burlesque with dark, twisted, come-hither performances that have secured her place in the underworld of nightlife as well as the bastion of the art world.

On any given night in New York City, you can see Julie Atlas Muz peeling off the outlandish costumes she dons, covered in fake blood in the basement of a gay bar or co-hosting America’s Favorite Burlesque Gameshow This or That! on public access–in essence, expressing her bawdy, irreverent and unexpected sense of humor.  Muz has presented her work at P.S. 122, HERE, The Performing Garage and Art at St. Anne’s Warehouse, chashama, LaMama, The Kitchen, and Dixon Place.  Late at night you can see Julie Atlas Muz perform regularly in New York at the Galapagos, The Slipper Room, The VaVaVoom Room The Coral Room, the Marquis, Mo’ Pitkins House of Satisfaction, Rififfi and a host of other locations.

Muz has been awarded Artist- in-Residency status from Chashama (2002), Joyce Soho (2001), Mondo Conne Artist-in-Residency at Dixon Place (2000) and Movement Research Artist-in-Residence (1998-99).  2004 Whitney Biennial Artist and a 2005 Valencia Bienal Artist.

A true Gemini, Muz has enjoyed the honor of working with a wide variety of artists in many different capacities.  Muz excels in working with children in theatrical contexts such as Pink Inc., Chashama, and The Hudson River Park Conservancy.

In film, Muz has worked with Wallace Shawn, Greg Pak, Steve Staso, Michael Moore Pavol Liska and recently appeared in Law and Order as a lap dancer. Muz has danced for award-winning choreographers Sarah Michelson, Sally Silvers, Cydney Wilkes and others.

PRESS QUOTES

“Julie Atlas Muz is the quintessence of fabulousness” -Gay City News

“The bemused blond of downtown performance art” -New York Times

“Julie Atlas Muz has found a place in the modern-dance world, yet she isn’t beholden to any of its rules–even those observed in the form’s most experimental crannies.” -TimeOut New York

“One of the deftest performers around.” -New York Times Magazine

“It was pure Ms. Muz: bawdy, satirical and unadulterated theater from beginning to end.” -New York Times

“Muz manages to make her exhibitionism gesture towards the vulnerable strength of the body in a funny yet political combination of visual and performance art” -The Brooklyn Rail

“She has the burlesque thing down to a science–simple but genius.” -Gotham

Ms. Muz takes the aesthetic of burlesque and applies it to high art to create a dark fantasy of innocence and corruption. The movement is alternately playful and sexual, and the sex is alternately pure and prurient.” -Culturebot.org