Juliet Shelley is an experienced practitioner, teacher and exponent of Contact Improvisation, based in Wellington, NZ.
She has taught CI at the NZ School of Dance, UNITEC School of Performing and Screen Arts NZ, at the Australian Contact Improvisation Convergance, at SOUL in Auckland, at Prana festivals in the Coromandel and in contact dance communities in the UK and NZ since 1989. Juliet studied Contact with Julyen Hamilton, Steve Paxton, Nancy Stark Smith, Martin Keogh, Ray Chung, Kirstie Simson and Andrew Harwood. She studied dance professionally at the Laban Centre in London and the School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam. Juliet has performed CI with Nancy Stark Smith, Martin Keogh, Catherine Chappell, Sylvie Haisman and with Jointwork Dance Group in the UK.
She lives in Wellington, New Zealand.