About Beth

Beth Gill is a Guggenheim, Doris Duke Impact and Bessie Award-winning choreographer based in New York City since 2005.

Imbued with experimentalist and traditionalist values, her formal and exacting works are toned with the themes of obsession, alienation, objectification, female sexuality and rage, and transformation. Meticulous and rigorous in her approach she builds with the imagination and structural complexity of a long form novelist or large scale architect. Exploring aesthetics and perception she has produced an evolving body of work that utilizes abstraction, psychology, design, dance and drama in ways that are progressive and timely.

At 38 years old, Gill has produced six commissioned evening-length works met with critical acclaim and often on year-end “best of” lists. She has toured her work nationally and internationally and been honored with (among others): NEFA’s National Dance Project Grant; Princeton’s Hodder Fellowship; LMCC’s Extended Life Artist in Residence Award; New York City Center’s Choreography Fellowship; Foundation for Contemporary Arts’ Grant; and most recently a 2017-2018 Joyce Theater Comprehensive Creative Residency.

Performing Beth’s work at Motion State Dance Festival will be Danielle Goldman.

Danielle Goldman is Associate Professor of Critical Dance Studies at The New School. Author of I Want to be Ready: Improvised Dance as a Practice of Freedom (University of Michigan Press, 2010), she has published articles in Dance Research, Dance Research Journal, Etcetera, Movement Research Performance Journal, TDR, and Women & Performance. In addition to her writing and teaching, Goldman has performed in the work of Sarah Michelson, DD Dorvillier, Anna Sperber, and Beth Gill.

photo: Danielle Goldman in Gill’s Brand New Sidewalk, by Maria Baranova