Biography
Julie Fryer
Julie Fryer of Holland is state of art dancing. Worldwide.
Julie Fryer is what we call “dance dynamite”. Julie mesmerises the world as a dancer and as a choreographer with her vibrant energy in all her work. And winning in an atmosphere of great harmony is her style. These qualities make her several times world champion in Latin American Dancing. Julie is just dance dynamiteAnd these qualities help her clients to get the maximum outof their dance qualities as well. Julie coaches and choreographs not only Ballroom and Latin American dancers but also national celebrities to win TV-series like Dancing with the Stars.
This British-Dutch miracle in dance starts her passion at the age of six. She works at her ballet skills (modern) and develops her singing. Cute as she already is on a very young age, she performs in many musical summer shows all over England. From the age of twelve she finds her competitive edge in a new world: Ballroom and Latin American dancing. She wins Junior International titles and becomes a world amateur finalist. Julie creates a new
dynamical style in Latin American dancing Soon Julie needs more passion and finds that in the partnership with Louis van Amstel. She leaves England and moves to Holland. Together with the TeamAmsterdam teachers and top coach Ruud Vermeij PhD. they create a new very dynamical style in Latin American dancing. This energetic dancing is quickly rewarded with two world titles in the amateur ranks. Julie is a tripple World Champion in DanceSoon to be followed up by the world title in South American Show Dance for professionals.
After having won the most important dance prices Julie decides to stop competing but not to stop dancing. She dances in very well-received shows with several world class professional Ballroom and Latin dancers.
With Van Amstel she performs in many American theatres with their dynamical dance show “The Best of the Best”. They dance at the prestigious Japanese show ‘the World Superstars’. The finale of this dance partnership is live on Dutch television. Julie and Louis perform their final dance steps together while Julie dances shows around the world Holland’s greatest pop star Marco Borsato sings his hit song "Red".
The transition from active dancer to professional teacher and coach goes smoothly and easily for Julie. Her dance qualities immediately attract the finest competitive Ballroom dancers to work with her.
Producers of television dance programs in Holland (and abroad) select her to dance with national celebrities. And Julie is an immediate success. In her first television series of Dancing with the Stars she becomes the first winner together with national singing celebrity Jim Bakkum. In later seasons she not only performs but starts to create dance choreographies to support performances Julie stars in the tv-series Dancing with the Stars of artists like Enrique Iglesias. And thanks to her spontaneous personality and her vast knowledge of dance she also appears on television as the chairperson of the judges in Dancing with the Stars.
Her television work continuous to grow. She interviews dancers in TV shows. Julie choreographs more and more for television
And she is a guest herself in several talk shows.
Today Julie successfully choreographs the dancing in many television shows like a series of shows about the sixties, seventies eighties and nineties and the series "So you think you can dance".
Julie shares her passion for competitive dancing with other national dance celebritiesJulie is teaching top ranked competitive dancers like Roemjana De Haan, Koen Brouwers & Stefan Rolvink. Together they form GangAmsterdam that teaches and coaches amateurs and professionals who take dancing most seriously and enjoy the work to improve.
Julie is Julie: warm
and open hearted All in all Julie Fryer is a spontaneous world class dance gem in many arena’s. As a dancers, as a coach, as a teacher, as a judge and as a choreographer. Maybe her biggest gem is that she remains a very warm and open hearted person.
Julie Fryer
Mobile phone +31-6-2181 3511Purmerend
The Netherlands
Name Julie Fryer
Date of birth 10th March 1971
Place of birth Manchester UK
Living in Purmerend, The Netherlands
Kids Demi & Abby
Titles won:1994 World Amateur Latin Champion
1995 European amateur Latin Champion
1995 World Amateur Latin Champion
1995 Grandslam Professional Latin Champion
1996 World Professional Showdance Champion
1996 Professional World Latin Finalist
2005 Winner of Dancing With the Stars
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