JOnathan Gonzalez
Afro-Dominican-American artist, scholar, cultural organizer and educator. Their practice is a cross-disciplinary and collaborative, choreographic dialogue with Diasporic black life and black living.
Their projects have been supported internationally by institutions including Academy of Arts Berlin, Abrons Arts Center, homeschool PDX, MoMA, MoMA PS1, Trinidad Performance Institute, Center for Afrofuturist Studies, Studio Museum in Harlem, BRIC, among others. Their writings have been published by EAR | WAVE | EVENT, Dance NYC, First Nations Dialogues Journal, Region(es), Cultured Magazine, deem journal, Contact Quarterly, Movement Research, Contemporaryand, The Creative Independent and Angela's Pulse. They have received support from the Art Matters Foundation, Foundation for the Contemporary Arts, Jerome Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, and have been an artist-in-residence at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography, Loghaven Artist Residency, Shandaken Project, among others.
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For his residency Jonathan will be rehearsing his upcoming performance know the dancing…, to be debuted in LMCC’s RIver to River Festival in June.
In, know the dancing…, Afro-Diasporic cultural idioms are interwoven through dance, sound, speech acts and design to incite the critical through-lines of these creolized expressive arts emerging in the greater Caribbean and Turtle Island.
Performed within the historic open-air setting of La Plaza at The Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, this one night engagement invites audience members into the event as party-goers to celebrate the gift of gathering, as well as to honor the long emancipatory uses of culture as a tool for place-making and liberation by African-descendants in the supposed “New World”.
Collaborative Team:
Performers: Ali Rosa-Salas, Marguerite Hemmings, Dani Criss, Jordan Lloyd, Jasmine Hearn, Fana Fraser
Designer: Rudy Gerson
Sound Designer and Musician: William Catanzaro and Zach Crumrin
