Jonathan González
Jonathan González is an adjunct professor for UArts’ Critical Studies courses and in the School of Dance. His pedagogy and practice are situated at the intersections of performance, with interest in topics of insurgent aesthetics, political economy, metaphysics, and performance studies. He produces time-based media and popup study collectives as a solo artist, as well as in the collaborative entity studio:cero.
Biography
Jonathan González earned his BA from Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, and an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York, as a Posse and Bessie Schonberg Scholar. His pedagogy and practice are situated at the intersections of performance, with interest in topics of insurgent aesthetics, political economy, metaphysics, and performance studies. His teaching culls from a multidisciplinary training in performing arts, Africana studies, queer studie, and education.
González produces time-based media and study collective as a solo artist, as well as in the collaborative entity studio:cero. His writings can be found in publications EAR | WAVE | EVENT, Dance/NYC, Regiones:CENTRAL, Movement Research Journal, Contemporary and, The Creative Independent, Contact Quarterly, Cultured Magazine, deem journal, and Angela’s Pulse.
Experience
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MFA, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York
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OYP, Trinity Laban Conservatoire for Music and Dance, London
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BA, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut
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Awards & Accolades
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Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Fellow, 2022
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Brooklyn Academy of Music, artist in residence, 2022
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WaveFarm Media, 2021
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Center for Afro-futurist Studies, artist in residence, 2022
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Trinidad Performance Institute, fellow, 2022
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Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Emergency Grant Artists, 2022
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Art Matters Foundation, 2019
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NY Dance & Performance, Bessie Awards, Breakout Choreographer, 2019
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Diebold Family Award in Choreography and Performance
