Jonathan González
Doctoral Lecturer
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Jonathan González is a choreographer, artist, and educator whose practice spans performance, sound, image, writing, video, and collective forms. Their practice and scholarship explore the entanglements of culture, memory, architecture, and embodiment. These unfold through site-specific and durational projects that treat resonance and atmosphere as choreographic materials, extending into prose, poetics, and media as parallel modes of inquiry.
Recent projects include Spectral Dances (American Academy of Arts and Letters, 2024), a site-specific durational performance and sonic installation; PRACTICE (LMCC’s River To River Festival, 2025), a world premiere staging dance, sound, and design as social architecture; and perejil (Crystal Bridges Museum of Art/The Momentary, 2022), a performance and video work presented as part of Entre/Between. González’s forthcoming book, Ways to Move: Black Insurgent Grammars (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2025), extends this research into writing, combining prose and poetic forms to interrogate the relations between movement, language, archive, and imagination.
González’s pedagogy is rooted in the belief that choreography is not only an artistic practice but also a method of thinking—an embodied inquiry into how we move through and shape space, time, and one another. Their teaching encourages students to approach movement as both a compositional and philosophical tool, bridging studio practice with critical reflection and cross-disciplinary experimentation. Collaboration, dialogue, and the cultivation of embodied knowledge are central to their classrooms, where performance becomes a laboratory for building shared vocabularies of attention, relation, and transformation.
González is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Herb Alpert Award in Dance (2024), the MAP Fund (2024), and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists in Performance Art/Theater (2019). These honors have supported ambitious interdisciplinary projects that integrate live performance, installation, and publication, reflecting González’s commitment to performance as a site of rigorous inquiry and collective reflection.