"I’m interested in imagination as a vehicle for travel, transformation and empowerment. I’m interested in a dance that is choreographed as a traveling of the mind, which we watch and track on the outside through its embodied forms."

-Beth Gill

Beth Gill is a choreographer based in New York City since 2005. Combining experimental and traditional approaches, she makes formal and exacting works centered around acts of obsession and transformation. Gill is the proud recipient of multiple awards: Herb Alpert, Doris Duke Impact, Foundation for Contemporary Art and two “Bessies”. At 40 years old she has produced six commissioned evening length works met with critical acclaim. She has toured nationally and internationally and been honored with (among others): Guggenheim Fellowship, NEFA’s National Dance Project grant, Princeton’s Hodder Fellowship and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Extended Life Artist in Residence.

Education

2003 New York University/Tisch School of the Arts B.F.A. Dance, Dramatic Literature (minor)

1999 Fordham University/Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Anatomy & Kinesiology, Ballet & Horton

Honors & Awards

2021 Herb Albert Award

2017 New York Times “Best of 2017” for Brand New Sidewalk

2015 Doris Duke Impact Award

2012 Dance Magazine’s ’25 to Watch’

2011 New York State Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award - Outstanding Emerging

2011 New York State Dance and Performance Juried “Bessie” Award: for the choreographer exhibiting some of the most interesting ideas in dance in NYC today

2011 Time Out New York “Best Dance of 2011” for Electric Midwife

2008 Time Out New York “Best Dance of 2008” for what it looks like, what it feels like

Awarded Artist Residence and Fellowships

2013, 2016, 2020, 2022 MANCC Residency

2018-2021 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Extended Life Residency

2018 The Joyce Theater Foundation creative residency and a technical residency

2016 Center for Performance Research’s Artist in Residency program

2015-2016 Princeton Lewis Center for the Arts Hodder Fellowship

2015-2016 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Extended Life Residency

2015 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship

2015 Baryshnikov Arts Center Artist Residency

2014 International Performance Festival Cardiff Artist Residency

2014 MASS MoCA Production Residency

Teaching

2018 - 2022 Sarah Lawrence College: Dance Making

2018 - 2019 University of the Arts: Repertory

2014, 2019 Bard College: Creative Process

2018 Eugene Lang The New School for Liberal Arts: Composition

2014 New York University, Tisch, Experimental Theater Wing: Composition

2014 American Dance Festival: Technique, Composition, Repertory