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

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

Past classes and workshops