5.21 - Gerald Casel

FORMS classes are a grown-up version of your morning technique class. We move big while taking care of our bodies. Come get ready for your rehearsal, your show, your day or you life

Gerald Casel (he/they/siya) is a dance artist, equity advocate, and antiracist educator. As director of GERALDCASELDANCE, his 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 Department of Dance at Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. They have previously been a faculty member at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, California State University Long Beach, and UC Santa Cruz where he also served as the Provost of Porter College. A graduate of The Juilliard School with an MFA from UW-Milwaukee, they received a New York Dance and Performance Award “Bessie” for sustained achievement for dancing in the companies of Stephen Petronio, Michael Clark, Stanley Love, Zvi Gotheiner, Sungsoo Ahn, and The Metropolitan Opera Ballet. He is the founder of Dancing Around Race, an ongoing community engaged-participatory program that interrogates systemic racial inequities.  www.geraldcasel.com