Levi Gonzalez

Founding Editor 2005-2010

Levi Gonzalez is a dance artist and advocate, originally from Los Angeles, who lived and worked in New York City for 20 years before beginning his current full-time faculty position at Bennington College in 2020. Through his work, he has consistently engaged in research and inquiries around the sensorium, artistic process, concepts of normativity, and international investigations of the body and its impact across cultures. He collaborates regularly with luciana achugar, and has performed extensively with Donna Uchizono Company, John Jasperse Company, Juliette Mapp, ChameckiLerner, Daria Faïn, and Michael Laub’s Remote Control Productions in Europe. He was a founding editor of Critical Correspondence, an online publication of Movement Research, from 2006 to 2009. He served as Artistic Advisor for New York Live Art’s Fresh Tracks Residency Program from 2006 to 2014 and for the Brooklyn Arts Exchange Artist-in-Residence program from 2012 to 2014. From 2012 to 2016 was the Director of Artist Programs for Movement

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Levi, a light-skinned, dark-haired male is looking down and to his left, while his hand is placed on the shoulder of another dark-haired male whose back is to the viewer. This figure holds a microphone to Levi's mouth and has his hand on Levi's right cheek. Both are standing before a blurred grey background. Photo by Alex Escalante
ID: Levi, a light-skinned, dark-haired male is looking down and to his left, while his hand is placed on the shoulder of another dark-haired male whose back is to the viewer. This figure holds a microphone to Levi's mouth and has his hand on Levi's right cheek. Both are standing before a blurred grey background. Photo by Alex Escalante

Upcoming classes and workshops

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Morning Class: Practicing Emergence(y)

Levi Gonzalez

Fri, Sep 27 - Oct 25, 2024

The torsos of two light-skinned males with dark hair and heads bowed are leaning against one another in front of a blurred grey background. One, in a black shirt, is pressing down on the other's shoulders. The other, in a blue shirt, is pressing both hands into the other's chest. Photo by Rachel Keane.