Created & Performed by Sara Juli
Digital Projections & Illustrations by Devon Kelley-Yurdin
Lighting by Rob Lariviere
Production Management & Original Lighting by Justin Moriarty
Dramaturgy by Michelle Mola
Costumes by Carol Farrell
Photo credit: Nick Pierce

Naughty Bits is a provocative dance-play that finds the forgotten, funny and wobbly bits of reclaiming one’s mind and body. Fusing text, song, projections, and comedy, this autobiographical performance acknowledges the gravity of Sara’s burdens and finds the humor in them at the same time.

A skilled comedian, actress and dancer, Juli’s work explores her own personal struggles through the medium of performance. In sharing her work, she creates space for audiences to access their own challenges.

Naughty Bits was commissioned by the Strand Theatre in Rockland, Maine, through their New Century Series. Additional support provided by the Maine Arts Commission, and the American Rescue Plan Maine Project Grants, a subgranting program administered by SPACE for the National Endowment for the Arts.

About Sara Juli (she/her)

“…a light of the downtown dance and theatre scene” – The New Yorker

Acclaimed Performance Artist Sara Juli has been creating and performing innovative comedic dance-theater for 24 years. She has been fortunate to tour venues worldwide including American Dance Festival, Dixon Place, Performance Space New York, New York Live Arts, Bates Dance Festival, Bowdoin College, SPACE Gallery, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Melbourne Fringe Festival, Noorderzon Festival (The Netherlands), Chelsea Theatre (London), Aotea Centre (New Zealand) and more. Her work has been commissioned by Performance Space 122, Dixon Place, American Dance Festival, SPACE Gallery, Portland Ovations, and The Strand Theatre (ME). Sara has received funding from Maine Arts Commission, Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, New England Foundation for the Arts Expeditions, New England Dance Fund, NEST Touring Grants, and the prestigious National Dance Project in 2019-2022. She was the 2017 Maine Fellow for the Performing Arts awarded by the Maine Arts Commission. Sara is the Founder/Director of Surala Consulting, a fundraising consultancy helping non-profits and artists build and execute fundraising strategies. She was awarded the Arts Management Award from Brooklyn Arts Exchange in 2013, and is an ongoing project advisor to The Boston Foundation’s Next Steps and LAB Programs. Sara is an Affiliated Artist of Bates College and taught “Business of the Arts” at Williams College in January 2024. She lives in Falmouth, Maine, on the traditional lands of the Wabanaki people, with her husband and two children.