Jonathan Gonzalez

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Adjunct Professor, School of Dance, Critical Studies

MFA, Sarah Lawrence College
BFA, Trinity College

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School of Dance
Critical Studies

Jonathan González teaches UArts Critical Studies courses and within 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 pop-up study collectives as a solo artist, as well as in the collaborative entity studio:cero.

Biography
Jonathan González received 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 studies 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

  • MFA, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York
  • OYP, Trinity Laban Conservatoire for Music and Dance, London
  • BA, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut


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Awards & Accolades
González’s work has been recognized numerous times by a variety of institutions.

  • New York Performing Arts Library Inclusion into Archives (2022)
  • Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Fellow, 2022
  • Brooklyn Academy of Music, artist in residence, 2022
  • WaveFarm Media, 2021
  • Center for Afro-futurist Studies, artist in residence, 2022
  • Trinidad Performance Institute, fellow, 2022
  • Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Emergency Grant Artists, 2022
  • Art Matters Foundation, 2019
  • NY Dance & Performance, Bessie Awards, Breakout Choreographer, 2019
  • Diebold Family Award in Choreography and Performance