Juliet McMains
Juliet McMains is a filmmaker, video installation artist, dance scholar, educator, and lifelong practitioner of improvisational social dance. She strives to translate the kinesthetic experiences of dancing to digital forms through cinematographic, editing, and video mapping techniques. Her artistic research is in dialogue with her academic research, which interrogates systems of gendered and racial power in American and Latin American social dance traditions. Juliet is author of Glamour Addiction (Wesleyan UP 2006) and Spinning Mambo into Salsa (Oxford UP 2015) as well as articles on salsa, rumba, ballroom, swing, and tango. She is the director of the film project Faces of Contemporary Tango (www.facesoftango.art) and is a Professor in the Department of Dance at the University of Washington. Juliet has a Ph.D. in Dance History and Theory from the University of California at Riverside and a B.A. in Women’s Studies from Harvard University.
New Media Gallery 2026-27 (with Paul Matthew Moore and Rose Xu)
