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Philippine-born Gerald Casel received a BFA in Dance from the Juilliard School and an MFA from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He has danced in the companies of Michael Clark, Stanley Love, Zvi Gotheiner, Lar Lubovitch and Stephen Petronio, where he was a member from 1991-1998 and 2001-2005 serving as the Stephen Petronio Company's Assistant Director and Director of Education. In 1997 he was given a New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award for sustained achievement. In 1999 and 2006-7 he was a Movement Research Artist-in-Residence. In 2007, he was a finalist for NYFA's Urbart Artist Initiative Fellowship. Casel has been a guest teacher at Dance New Amsterdam, Movement Research, Impulstanz and the School for Modern Dance in Denmark. He has served as adjunct professor at Sarah Lawrence College, UW-Milwaukee, Barnard College and is currently on faculty at New York University Tisch School of the Arts. He has been making choreography for his company, GERALDCASELDANCE, since 1998 performing at Dance Theater Workshop, Joyce SoHo, The Yard, Danceworks (Milwaukee), Conduit (Portland) and ODC (San Francisco). The company will present their first evening-length piece, 'Border', at Joyce SoHo May 15-18, and at Jacob's Pillow Inside/Outside August 22. Future projects include a season at Dance New Amsterdam (New York) and a collaboration with X Factor Dance Company in Edinburgh touring the UK in 2009. |