Jonathan González

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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 embodied practices shape spatial, cultural, and perceptual experience. His work will be featured in the 2026 Carnegie International, reflecting his continued investigation into the possibilities of site-responsive and durational performance within contemporary Black performance. González is the author of the recent book Ways to Move: Black Insurgent Grammars (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2025), which extends his choreographic thinking into prose and poetic form. Major awards, including the Pew Fellowship, the Herb Alpert Award in Dance, and the MAP Fund, have supported his creative practice.

Ananda Naima González is a multidisciplinary artist and educator residing in Harlem, NY. She carries both a BA and an MFA from Columbia University, in poetry and fiction respectively. Ananda has trained professionally in ballet, pointe, modern, contemporary, and contact improvisation at institutions including Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Barnard College, Dance Theatre of Harlem, The Rock School for Dance Education, and Maryland Youth Ballet. She has had the privilege of working with distinguished choreographers such as Molissa Fenley, Chase Brock, Patricia Hoffbauer, Lance Gries, Bill Young, Reggie Wilson, and Jonathan González, and has performed at New York Live Arts, La MaMa, St. Mark's Church, The Kitchen, 92nd Street Y, and The Kennedy Center, among others. She has choreographed two dance films and an evening-length work alongside her twin sister. Her creative mission is to honor the inherently sacred ritual of living.

India Lena González is a dancer, choreographer, and multidisciplinary artist. She received her BA from Columbia University and her MFA from New York University. India has studied at the prestigious Dance Theatre of Harlem, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Maryland Youth Ballet, and the Rock School for Dance Education, among others, and has had the pleasure of working with choreographers Faye Driscoll, Molissa Fenley, Lance Gries, Patricia Hoffbauer, Jodi Melnick, and Reggie Wilson. She has performed at Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, St. Mark’s Church, La Mama, New York Live Arts, and other such venues. fox woman get out! (BOA Editions, 2023) is her debut poetry collection and was a finalist for Poetry Society of America’s 2024 Norma Farber First Book Award. For more information, visit: indialenagonzalez.com.

Marguerite Hemmings specializes in emergent, improvisational and social movement styles and technologies. They research the subversive role of dance and music throughout the African Diaspora and channel this research through performance, body, text, social/public media, and moving image. Hemmings’ work is also embedded in alternative pedagogy and social practice/research and they have worked at University of the Arts in the School of Dance, Arizona State University, Princeton University, and many afterschool programs and community centers. Marguerite has received grants and fellowships from the Jerome Foundation, Brooklyn Arts Council, Harlem Stage, University Settlement, Dancing While Black, Urban Bush Women’s Choreographic Center Initiative, Arizona State University’s Projecting All Voices Fellowship, Abrons Arts Center, Headlong Performance Institute, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Mural Arts, Black Spatial Relics, and Independence Public Media Foundation to further their research.

Kingsley Ibeneche is a Nigerian-American Choreographer, Musician, Writer and DJ, raised in Camden, New Jersey. He currently works out of Philadelphia and New York. Kingsley received his Bachelor’s of Fine Arts from the University of the Arts in Ballet Performance, and a Masters of Fine Arts in dance pedagogy at Bennington College. Kingsley has been a part of notable companies such as Philadanco 2, Balance Dance Theater in NY, and a company member with Just Sole Street Theater. He later joined Pilobolus Dance Theater in 2015 working on their production of “Shadowland.” Getting to tour around 5 continents with the company for 3 years. After company life Kingsley signed with Bloc Talent Agency & is currently signed with United Talent Agency. He has worked with & danced background for known acts and platforms such as Alicia Keys (VMA’s), Swae Lee, Halsey (SNL), James Blake, Travis Scott (VMA’s), GAP, and NIKE. His musicianship has helped him create 3 completed bodies of musical work including Udo his debut album, as well as a generous amount of vocal features and sharing the stage with acts such as Boddhi Satva, IvySole, Solchyld, and Lee Clarke, Bilal, Skip Marley, Ali Shaheed, Adrian Younge, Madison Mcferrin, Sunshine Anderson, Maya. His music has been featured in publications and platforms such as:The FADER, Paste Mag, okayafrica, NPR, afropunk, KEXP, The Creative Independent and SOFAR. Kingsley’s debut album “Udo” came out last September and garnered a lot of eyes on the artist who is blending mediums through the lens of his Nigerian culture. Kingsley is currently at Bennington College as visiting professor.

Born and raised in Philadelphia, on the land known as Lenapehoking, the ancestral home of the Lenni-Lenape people, AJ Wilmore is an artist and performer whose work explores storytelling, identity, and the complexities of Black familial relationships. Through her practice, she excavates desire while navigating questions of visibility, intimacy, and selfhood. A 2020 graduate of The University of the Arts, she refined her approach to movement investigation. Recent performances include adaku part 1: the road opens (2023) by Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born, and Joan Jonas’s Mirror Piece I and II at MoMA. Wilmore’s work embraces fear, vulnerability, and the textures of social and sexual life.

Born and raised in Uptown New York, Alexis De La Rosa, known as Delabae, is a multidisciplinary creative working across music, fashion, and film. As a DJ, Alexis weaves club, techno, house, disco, and Caribbean rhythms into high–energy sets that celebrate movement, identity, and liberation. Alexis has performed at venues such as Nowadays, Basement, Signal, Good Room, and Nocturnal Emissions, where he currently holds a residency. Most recently, he toured Sydney, Australia with HOUSE OF MINCE during their PRIDE festival, cementing his growing global reach. Beyond music, Alexis works professionally as an actor and model, represented by Innovative Artists and Kev Mgmt. His work has appeared in Vogue México, GQ, i-D, and Wonderland, and he has also worked with brands including Nike, Coach, Calvin Klein, and most notably LUAR. Alexis is also currently filming his first pilot series, set to release in 2028. Alexis has also collaborated with Jonathan as both a movement and music collaborator during his past residencies at David Zwirner and BOFFO. Across music, fashion and film, Alexis is driven by a commitment to expand and reshape queer Latin narratives.

GENG PTP is a Manhattan-born, Queens NYC-based sound practitioner, DJ, poet, educator, archivist, visual designer, organizer, and physical trainer. With 3+ decades of participatory roots in NYC's DIY communities, he has been making work through a multitude of solo and collaborative processes. Most currently, he performs as KING VISION ULTRA (est. 2017). He also makes up half of CENTENNIAL GARDENS - a duo with Dreamcrusher - and RIGHTQUICK - a duo with Yaz Lancaster. GENG's organizing work extends to the visionary collective, PTP (Protect The Peace fka Purple Tape Pedigree), which he established in 2009. PTP operates in spaces as "counter-industrial purveyors of weaponized media and information."