Julia Taffe is a dancer and climber from Vancouver, British Columbia. She has successfully combined her two passions to make her one of Canada’s leading vertical dancers and vertical-dance choreographers.

Taffe has studied and performed in Canada and the United States with companies such as the Toronto Dance Company, the Danny Grossman Company and Les Ateliers de Danse Moderne. She has performed vertical dance around the world as a soloist and with Bandaloop Dance Company. Her performances and choreographic works include "Let’s Dance"; aerial building performances commissioned by the new Scotiabank Dance Centre; The Granite Ocean, a Bravo!FACT Mountain Dance Video; "One", commissioned by the National Arts Centre and premiered at the Canada Dance Festival; "Notre Dame de Paris", Eiffel Tower Millennium Celebration, Las Vegas, Nevada; "Awakenings", United Nations Climate Change Conference, Buenos Aires, Argentina; and "Gravitations", Vertical Dance, Banff Arts Festival. In 1994, she was featured in Julia, a video portrait of a dancer/climber by Janet Roddan.

"The sheer plastique of Barrick Taffe’s long limbs, her stunningly catlike falls and landings and her ability to physicalize emotion were gripping to behold." — Garth Buchholz, Winnipeg Free Press