Gerald Casel

Associate Chair, Theater Arts Department

Associate Professor, Theater Arts

Education and Training:

BFA, The Juilliard School, New York, NY

MFA, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Om Yoga Center, New York, NY

Shambhala Meditation Center, New York, NY

Teaching Interests:

Modern dance technique, Somatics, Choreography, Improvisation, Neuromuscular re-patterning for the dancer

Selected Performances:

Dancing Around Race, a community engagement residency in the Bay Area
Not About Race Dance and Cover Your Mouth When You Smile, ODC Theater, San Francisco, CA
Netta Yerushalmy’s Paramodernities at Jacob’s Pillow
Gerald + Keith, a collaboration with Keith Hennessy at Fresh Festival, San Francisco, CA
Taglish, Ten Artists Respond to Trisha Brown’s Locus, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Splinters in Our Ankles, ODC Theater, San Francisco, CA
Visiter, Joe Goode Annex, San Francisco, CA
Fluster and Plot, Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church, New York, NY
Save The Robots!, Dance New Amsterdam. New York, NY
Border, Jacob’s Pillow Inside/Out, Becket, MA

Honors and Awards:

Selected Presentations:

Dancing Around Race – Interrogating Whiteness in Dance (2018), National Dance Education Organization, San Diego, CA
Guest Artist (2017), Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts
Choreography as a Colonizing Force (2016), National Dance Education Organization, Washington, DC
Splinters in Our Ankles (2015), World Dance Alliance and Asia Pacific Dance Festival, Honolulu, HI

Email:

Phone:

Office: 831-459-4918

Office:

J-14

Office Hours:

Please see the current Faculty Office Hours and contact sheet here, or contact the department office at theater@ucsc.edu.

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