CV
Gabriel Bruno Eng Gonzalez
ggonzalez9816@gmail.com
gbg4@illinois.edu
Education
- MFA Dance, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign 2025
Advisor: Roxane D ’Orleans Juste
-BA Sociology and Dance, Beloit College [Magna Cum Laude] 2020
Teaching Experience
Graduate Teaching Assistant, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
2022 - present
*DANC 116/316/516 - Multimodal Performance Art /DANC 498 - BFA Thesis / *DANC 116/316/516 - Dance Party Aerobics / DANC 490 - Repertory Company / *DANC 100 Introduction to Contemporary Dance / *Dance 100 (online) / *DANC 270/470 - Dancing in Community /
*Primary Instructor
Dance Church IRL Instructor, Urbana Dance Company, Urbana Illinois
2023 - present
Awards/Fellowships
2024 Vannie L. Sheiry Memorial Scholarship ($1,000)
Given to a dance major who has demonstrated exceptional performing talent.
2023-2024 Mellon Foundation Interseminars Graduate Fellow ($35,000)
Interseminars funds three projects over three successive years, each selected through a competitive application process. This initiative represents the latest thinking on how best to practice a collaborative and equitable commitment to graduate training in the public research university of the 21st century. This initiative is supported by a $2,000,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation,
2022-2023 Graduate College Master's Fellowship ($20,000)
2022 - 2023 Creative & Performing Arts Fellowship ($2,000)
2021 - 2022 Foundation for Scholarly Exchange and Taiwan Ministry of Education, English Teaching Flagship Award, Penghu County Taiwan
The English Teaching Flagship Award is given to those who are willing and are qualified to be English teachers in Taiwan. The Foundation for Scholarly Exchange (FSE) cooperates with the MOE (Ministry of Education) in Taiwan in order to achieve the goal of becoming a bilingual country by 2030.
2020 - 2021 Fulbright Foundation for Scholarly Exchange, English Teaching Assistant, Kinmen County Taiwan
The English Teaching Assistant (ETA) Programs place Fulbrighters in classrooms abroad to provide assistance to the local English teachers. ETAs help teach English language while serving as cultural ambassadors for the U.S.
2020 Weissberg Human Rights Fellowship ($1,000)
Selected Performance and Exhibitions
The Winged, [Eros Soloist] (Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, October Dance, Urbana IL, 2024 ) José Limón, Reconstructor, Roxane D'Orleans Juste
Beneath Our Feet: Grounded Space, Place, and Worldmaking [Performance Lead] (Urbana IL, Independent Media Center, 2024) link
so! what now? (Studio Dance 2024, Urbana IL) Adanya Gilmore, link
[Re-Re] (Studio Dance Extended, Urbana IL, 2024)Oluwadamilare (Dare) Ayorinde
Steps In The Street (Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, October Dance, Urbana IL, 2023) Martha Graham, Regisseurs Miki Orihara Elizabeth Auclair
Cetacean (The Stock Pavilion (on the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign campus), Urbana, Illinois, 2023) Deke Weaver
Heap Loose (ON GO ING , Links Hall, Chicago, IL 2023) Jennifer Monson link
Heap Loose (Studio Dance 2023, Urbana, IL 2023) Jennifer Monson link
far from the 掛包: a memoir of reintegration (Elevate Dance Chicago 2022 Chicago Dance Makers Forum, Chicago Cultural Center) link
G Solo: underground underneath the underground [u.u.u.], prelude (Counterpulse SF 2021) Estrella Supernova link
Things Are Still Not Fine - How Have You Been? (This Body Shows Up NYC 2021) link
Things Are Still Not Fine (Elgin IL Fringe Festival 2021) link
Daddy Dom Cyber Som (Queerly Contemporary Festival NYC 2020) link
Daddy Dom Bear Seeking Twink for DL, NSA Fun Asian/Latin+++ (Beloit College Chelonia 2020) link
Hell on Earth is Paramus NJ, A Criticism of White Feminism and Suburbia through a lens of Asian American Identity (Beloit College 2019) link
2,109.2 mi via I-80 W (Beloit College Chelonia, ACDA 2018) link
Additional Experience/ Skills
-Professional experience with Softwares: Davinci Resolve, Lightroom,
-Mandarin and French limited working proficiency
- Sexuality and Gender Alliance President, Beloit College 2019 - 2020
- Asian Support Group Co-Facilitator, Beloit College 2017 - 2020
- Residential Assistant, Beloit College 2017 - 2019
- Students for a Inclusive Campus Exec, Beloit College 2017 - 2020
- Senior Class Officer
- Beloit Office of Admissions - tour guide 2016 - 2019