Gerald Casel is a “Bessie” and “Izzie” award winning dance artist, equity advocate, and antiracist educator. As director of GERALDCASELDANCE, their choreographic work complicates and provokes questions surrounding colonialism, collective cultural amnesia, whiteness and privilege, and the tensions between the invisible/perceived/obvious structures of power. Casel is Professor and Chair of the Dance Department at Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. He is also the founder of Dancing Around Race, an ongoing community-engaged-participatory process that interrogates systemic racial inequities. www.geraldcasel.com
