Julia Adam is an independent choreographer and former principal dancer with San Francisco Ballet. Trained at the National Ballet School in Toronto, she began her professional career as a dancer with The National Ballet of Canada. In 1988, Ms. Adam joined San Francisco Ballet and was promoted to principal dancer in 1996. She began her choreographic career in 1991, when she created The Medium is the Message for a workshop at San Francisco Ballet. Ms. Adam earned an Isadora Duncan (Izzy) Award nomination for this humorous work, which was recorded by the Bravo network and airs regularly on Canadian television. For her second choreographic workshop at San Francisco Ballet in 1994, she created Once is Enough, which was performed at the opening of the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco. In 1996, Ms. Adams won an Izzy Award for Thirteen Lullabies, a work she created for the Bay Area Dance Series. Ms. Adam's other works include Where's George (1996); Butterfly's Day Out (1997); Seven Ages in ¾ for Robert Moses' Kin; Chameleon for Alberta Ballet; Newton (3 Laws of Motion) (1998) for Lawrence Pech Dance Ensemble; Innocence and Experience (1997) for Ballet Met; Allegoria and Night. Night has become a signature work for the San Francisco Ballet, and the company has performed it at London's Royal Opera House, at the Opera Garnier in Paris and at New York's City Center. In February 2004, Houston Ballet presented the world premiere of Ms. Adam's Ketubah.