NYU alum Beth Gill‘s new work Nail Biter draws on “myth, memoir, psychodrama, and horror” – set before a backdrop from her first dance teacher’s collection.
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. Learn more.
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Recommended readings to get you in gear for the show.
- Amelia Jones and Andrew Stephenson, Performing the Body/Performing the Text (1999)
- André Lepecki, Exhausting Dance: Performance and the Politics of Movement (2005)
- André Lepecki, Singularities: Dance in the Age of Performance (2016)
- Rebecca Schneider, The Explicit Body in Performance (1997)
- Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity (2003)
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A Dance Through Dusty Time: The Choreographic Bite of Beth Gill
She draws on sensation and rhythm; through the placement and poetry of motion, a living dreamscape emerges. A simple change of perspective can shift the idea of time.
The Choreographer Beth Gill Takes Her Time, and Bends It
She has earned a reputation as a choreographer of unusual specificity with an uncommon eye for sculptural composition and an uncanny ability to affect a viewer’s sense of time.
Interview: Beth Gill
“Pretty much ninety-seven percent of the conversations we have are about timing at this point.”
The Dance Enthusiast Asks Bessie Award Winner, Beth Gill
“To choose to make dance at all, you are undertaking a tremendous amount of risk, often financial. But I don’t think that is unique.”