Beth Gill
2010-2011 Swing Space Resident, Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center At Governors Island
Beth Gill is a Brooklyn-based artist, who makes contemporary dance and performance in New York City. Since graduating from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in 2003 she has accumulated a body of work that critically examines issues relating to the fields of contemporary dance and performance studies, through an ongoing exploration of aesthetics and perception. Ranging from short-term improvised structures to long-term choreographed performances, her work has been commissioned multiple times by The Kitchen, Dance Theater Workshop, Dixon Place, Food For Thought and Catch! Beth is one of seven choreographers profiled in the Michael Blackwood Documentary, New York Dance: States of Performance (2010), curated by New York Times dance critic Gia Kourlas, which continues the focus of his two previous dance documentaries: Making Dances: Seven Post-Modern Choreographers (1980) and Retracing Steps: American Dance Since Postmodernism (1988). Her most recent project what it looks like, what it feels like, which premiered at The Kitchen in 2008, is the subject of Gillian Lipton’s article The Sensation of Waiting, published in MIT’s The Drama Review. This past year Beth’s work was included within the University of Illinois’ Dance Department’s curriculum.
The two week residency at Governors Island will be a focused work period for Gill and her dancers (Anna Carapetyan, Danielle Goldman, Jennifer Lafferty, Tara Lorenzen and Marilyn Maywald) to continue developing and investigating material for their upcoming season at The Chocolate Factory in June 2011.
