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Faculty Bio - Jonathan González

Jonathan González (they/them)

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Jonathan González (Adjunct Lecturer) is an artist and educator whose scholarship investigates geographies, racialization, and Black expressive cultures through mediums of choreography, sound, publication, video, lecture and curation. González is a Herb Alpert Fellow in Dance, grantee with the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Art Matters Foundation, Center for Afrofuturist Studies, and the Jerome Hill Foundation. They have been an artist-in-residence with the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography, Trinidad Performance Institute, Loghaven Artist Residency; and The Kitchen. González is a New York Bessie Dance & Performance nominee in Breakout Choreographer (2019), Outstanding Production (ZERO, Danspace Project, 2019), and Outstanding Performer (Ligia Lewis, Minor Matter, 2017). Their writings have been published in Movement Research Journal, Contact Quarterly, deem and Cultured, among others. They received their BA in Educational Studies, Africana Studies, and Theater & Dance from Trinity College, Certificate in Dance Theatre from Trinity Laban (UK), and an MFA in Dance from Sarah Lawrence College, as a POSSE and Bessie Schonberg Scholar, respectively. They serve as a Board member with Performance Space New York (PS 122) and Young Dancemakers Company. González’s first book, Ways to Move: Black Insurgent Grammars, is slated for a 2025 publication date with Ugly Duckling Presse.

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