Moving between choreographic thinking and critical writing, Jonathan González's Ways to Move approaches movement as a method for sensing, composing, and theorizing the relations between body, environment, and collective life. This event, organized by the Movement Theory Lab, part of the Neubauer Collegium's Arts Labs initiative, includes a reading by González followed by a Q&A. Participants are invited to engage questions of embodiment, perception, Black study, and the expanded field of choreography across performance, writing, and research.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Jonathan González is a choreographer, artist, and writer whose interdisciplinary practice engages site, sensation, memory, and embodiment as core materials of performance. Working across choreography, installation, sound, image, and text, González explores how movement operates as a form of spatial thinking and cultural inquiry. Their work has been presented internationally in museums, performance spaces, and public contexts, and centers collaborative methodologies that test how collective bodies negotiate atmosphere, duration, and shifting environments. González is the author of Ways to Move: Black Insurgent Grammars (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2025), a book that extends their choreographic thinking into poetic and theoretical writing. Recent and forthcoming projects include Swerve Fatigue, a large-scale ensemble work developed with The Kitchen; installation and performance magic hour–golden time as part of the Whitney Biennial and Frieze New York; and a new commission for the 59th Carnegie International, The Strikebreakers. González is a 2025 Pew Fellow and currently serves as Assistant Professor in the Department of Dance at Hunter College (CUNY), where their teaching bridges embodied research, performance studies, and interdisciplinary artistic practice.