Juliet Widyasari Burnett is an Indonesian-Australian dancer, choreographer and founder-director of A_PART, connecting Indonesian and Australian artists and communities. She is one of Australia’s most recognised dancers after her years at The Australian Ballet (2003-2015) and guesting with Chunky Move and West Australian Ballet; then from 2016-2022 she forged a career in Europe as dancer at Opera Ballet Vlaanderen in Belgium under Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s direction, also guesting with Dutch National Ballet.

In 2015 she began working occasionally in her mother’s country of Indonesia, performing, teaching and initiating community workshops for marginalised children. Juliet has been trained in her grandmother’s art of Javanese classical dance, and other traditional Javanese dances and art forms such as martial art Silat. In her practice Juliet explores a hybrid of Javanese dance and arts with Western classical and contemporary forms, navigating the confluence of dance, theatre and music.

As a choreographer she co-created a dance film Letting Blood for Dark Mofo (2016), dance theatre work in situ (2019) for Opera Ballet Vlaanderen and choreographed and performed in music clips for Melbourne band Cool Explosions (2018) and Icelandic artist Gyda Valtysdottir (2021). In 2024 she starred in renowned Indonesian director Garin Nugroho’s film Samsara (2024), and was one of the film’s choreographers.

In 2021 she was named winner of the Arts and Culture category of the 40 Under 40 Most Influential Asian-Australians Awards for her work connecting Indonesian and Australian artists and communities, Most Outstanding Dancer in Dance Europe 2020 for her performance in Edouard Lock’s The Heart of August…continued and Standout Solo Performance in Portland Dance Film Festival 2021 for Sam Asaert’s short film Exaltation.

In 2022 Juliet returned to Australia and is based on Kombumerri Country (Gold Coast), continuing as a freelance dancer and choreographer and leading A_PART into the future.