Julie Ince Thompson (1951-2003), choreographer, performer and teacher, died of cancer on September 25, 2003, a day short of her fifty-second birthday.

One of the most admired members of the Boston-area dance community since the mid-1970s when she performed in works by Dorothy Hershkowitz and Amy Ellsworth, she was known for her striking presence on stage in solo portraits she created from dance, words, and song. Working with a text by the late poet, Ruth Whitman, Thompson premiered Tamsen Donner: A Woman's Journey (1982) and Isadora Duncan: To Live Is To Dance (1991). The Tamsen Donner work, which remains her tour-de-force, was revived more than forty times.

Thompson taught for many years on the dance faculty at Boston Conservatory of Music and the Harvard Summer Dance Center. She's survived by her husband, Tommy Thompson; their children Danielle and Gabriel; and a stepdaughter, dancer Adrianna Thompson Ledingham.