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.
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) and ODC Theater (San Francisco). His choreography has been commissioned by The Yard (Make Way for Dragons), Barnard College (Frost) and NYU’s Second Avenue Dance Company (Kinship Descent). As a teacher he is a regular at Dance New Amsterdam and has been a guest at Movement Research, Impuls Tanz 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 soon at The International Dance Festival Ireland and TSEH Moscow Summer Dance School. Casel has been a faculty member at Sarah Lawrence College, Barnard College, NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
