Judy Hussie-Taylor, 2026-2027

Jonathan González Residency in Hudson, NY

Year: 2026-2027
DanceForce Member: Judy Hussie-Taylor
Artist: Jonathan González
Community Partner: Sadhana Center for Yoga – Hudson NY
Audience: 320
County: Columbia

Dancers in white fog. One dancer stands in focus, silhouetted by the light. Other dancers are shadows in the background.

Danspace Project is commissioning Jonathan González to create a new work to premiere Spring 2027, with a three-night run reaching approximately 300 audience members. Danspace proposes a New York State Dance Force Residency plus public showing at Sondra Loring’s Sadhana Center for Yoga and Meditation in Hudson, NY, to support choreographic research and compositional experimentation for their new work and to provide a nurturing environment outside of New York City in order to connect with the Hudson Valley community.

Jonathan González (he/they) is an artist and educator who investigates geographies, racialization, and Black expressive cultures through mediums of choreography, sound, publication, video, lecture and curation. González shares a long-standing artistic relationship with Danspace, where they previously premiered “ZERO” (2019), and has participated in multiple programs, including the Platform series and DraftWorks. González is a Herb Alpert Fellow in Dance, grantee with the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Art Matters Foundation, Center for Afrofuturist Studies, and the Jerome Hill Foundation. They have been an artist-in-residence with the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography, Trinidad Performance Institute, Loghaven Artist Residency; and The Kitchen. González is a New York Bessie Dance & Performance nominee in Breakout Choreographer (2019), Outstanding Production (ZERO, Danspace Project, 2019), and Outstanding Performer (Ligia Lewis, Minor Matter, 2017). Their writings have been published in Movement Research Journal, Contact Quarterly, deem and Cultured, among others.

González’s new work, “Swerve Fatigue,” will build on their ongoing dialog with Danspace Project, entering a new phase of development through the New York State DanceForce residency. “Swerve Fatigue” explores ensemble practices of “swerving”—abrupt shifts in direction to avoid collision—as a choreography of collective power within accelerating fields of crisis. Referencing accelerationism, atmosphere, entanglement, coordination, and intimacy, the work tests the illusion of individuality through the embodied negotiations of the group. Within a rehearsal setting made public, shaped by sound and shifting relations between bodies, performers move as if deindividuated matter, forming and reforming in response to one another. In this processual field, “Swerve Fatigue” proposes relation itself as a mode of resistance and collective becoming. Performers include Ananda Naima González, India Lena González, Marguerite Hemmings, Kingsley Ibeneche, and AJ Wilmore, with sound design by Alexis de la Rosa and GENG PTP.

Over the years Danspace Project has partnered with a number of extraordinary upstate residency centers including Denniston Hill in Sullivan County in 2023, Emily Johnson’s Catalyst Center in Delaware County in 2024 and with the Petronio Residency Center (PRC) in Greene County from 2018 – 2022. Last year, Danspace worked with NYS DanceForce member Elena Mosley to connect us to a new residency partner, Sondra Loring and her studio, Sadhana. After a successful residency with Symara Sarai in Summer 2025, including a public showing with the local community in the Hudson region, Danspace Project is thrilled to be returning in 2027.