Dance
Gerald Casel |
Courses
Modern Dance
Biography
Gerald Casel was born in the Philippines and raised in California where he began dancing in public school. He received a BFA in Dance from the Juilliard School in 1991 and an MFA in Dance at The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee with assistance from the Advanced Opportunity Fellowship Program. He has danced in the companies of Michael Clark, Sungsoo Ahn, Stanley Love, Zvi Gotheiner, Russell Dumas, the Metropolitan Opera Ballet, Lar Lubovitch and Stephen Petronio where he was a member from 1991-1998 and 2001-2005. Casel was The Stephen Petronio Company’s Assistant Director and Director of Education. In 1997 he was honored with a New York Dance and Performance Award “Bessie” for sustained achievement. He was an Artist-in-Residence at Movement Research in 1999 and 2006-2007. Casel was recently recognized with the David Payne-Carter Award for Teaching Excellence by NYU Tisch School of the Arts.
His company, GERALDCASELDANCE, has been presented in New York by Movement Research at Judson Church, Dance Theater Workshop (Fresh Tracks and SplitStream), Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church (Food For Thought), Joyce SoHo, Dixon Place, Kumble Theater, Joe’s Pub - dancenOw, La MaMa Moves, Symphony Space Dance Sampler and Aaron Davis Hall. The company has also performed at Danceworks (Milwaukee), Conduit (Portland), Jacob's Pillow Inside/Out, The Yard (Martha's Vineyard) and ODC Theater (San Francisco). Casel recently received a grant from the Asian American Arts Alliance (SOAR) and was a finalist for NYFA's Urban Artist Initiative. His choreography has been commissioned by The Yard (Make Way for Dragons), Barnard College (Frost), NYU’s Second Avenue Dance Company (Kinship Descent) and DaDa Dance Project (Exit Skeleton). As a teacher he teaches regularly at Dance New Amsterdam and has been a guest at Movement Research, Impulstanz Vienna, the School for Modern Dance in Denmark, Sydney Dance Company, The Scottish Ballet, Diversions – The National Dance Company of Wales, X Factor Edinburgh and at The International Dance Festival Ireland. Casel has been a faculty member at Sarah Lawrence College, Barnard College, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and is currently an Associate Teacher at NYU Tisch School of the Arts.
