Fly-by-Night Dance Theater, is a non-profit Modern Dance company dedicated to producing dance with a fresh perspective.  The company features the aerial dance repertory of Artistic Director Julie Ludwick and commissions composers to perform their scores live whenever possible.  This is the company’s 10^th anniversary season and the repertory has evolved to include video projection to create works that showcase the collaborative efforts of choreographer, composer, videographer and lighting designer.

Ludwick, has produced eight Free-for-Kids Projects that have brought families and community groups together for performances and workshops that are free for anyone 18 and under.  The company has also produced four New York Aerial Dance Festivals featuring the works of New York City aerialists. 

Choreographer and Artistic Director, Julie Ludwick's choreography has been shown in numerous venues including PS 122, Dixon Place, Dance Theater Workshop, The Kitchen, and Mabou Mines Theater (Residence Artist Suite 1997). Fly-by-Night has received support from The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York Foundation for the Arts, The Puffin Foundation, Meet the Composer, and Fleet Bank. The Jerome Foundation also provided funds as part of the Mabou Mines Artist-in-Residence Suite 1997.

Julie Ludwick has taught trapeze-dance in New York to numerous dancers, actors, gymnasts and aerial enthusiasts for many years.  In an effort to expand the community of those taking her class, the company has recently begun to offer scholarships for her class to women of color.  These scholarships are part of the company’s effort to make sure that Fly-by-Night’s future pool of dancers is ethnically diverse since most of the company’s dancers come from the students of her trapeze class. 

PERFORMANCE QUOTES:

Julie Ludwick is
compelling performer...a creature of the air....
A thoughtful, intelligent choreographer..."
Jennifer Dunning of the New York Times
April 19, 1993

Aerial dance choreographer Julie Ludwick should be enjoying greater notoriety than she currently garners in the contemporary dance world.� The history books will surely recognize her as an exceptional artist who has taken modern dance to new places (literally) and mined its expressive potential in a truly original fashion.� As the artistic director of Fly-by-Night Dance Theater, Ludwick has developed a movement language that extends the spatial and kinetic possibilities of modern dance by blending it with low-flying trapeze work, yet with no evocation of circus-trick sensibilities.
Lisa Jo Sagolla of Backstage.com
July 2008