Anthony Gongora
Visual Design/ Dancer/ Camera/ Editor/ Narrative Designer/ Set Designer/ Costume Designer
MWDCCo Film Works: Collision Course a.k.a. Pillow Talk (Film 2012); Maida I (Film 2011); Maida II (Film 2011); Tzveta I (Film 2011); FareWell: Rising Tide (2008-2012); Thresholds Crossed (Film 2006)
MWDCCo Dances: All works 2004 – 2014
An interdisciplinary artist who is compelled by driving curiosity and imagination to create. His ongoing quest to fully explore and understand life has been expressed through his fingertips on computer keyboards, canvasses and clay, and also through the soles of his feet dancing on stages that traverse the globe. Gongora is a choreographer, performer, visual artist and educator, currently teaching at The University of the District of Columbia as an Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Art in the school of Mass Media Visual & Performing Arts and also at the George Washington University Department of Theatre and Dance. He has received several awards for his choreography, which has been performed in venues such as Joyce SoHo, NYC; Dance Center of Columbia College, Chicago; St. Mark’s Church, DanspaceProject, NYC and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Performance experience includes dancing with the companies of Troika Ranch (NYC), Mordine & Company Dance Theatre (Chicago), Maida Withers Dance Construction Company (DC), Jan Erkert & Dancers (Urbana) and Bob Eisen Dance (Chicago).
Collaborations
- Collision Course – a.k.a. Pillow Talk (Stage Performance)
- Thresholds Crossed
- Collision Course - a.k.a. Pillow Talk (Film Short 7:40)
- Collision Course – a.k.a. Pillow Talk (Projected Installation)
- Electronic Bodies - Dance and Music Improvisation
- Naked Truth
- Maida II (Film Short 2:54)
- Maida I (Film Short 2:37)
- Fare Well - Rising Tide
- Tzveta I (Film Short 7:00)
- Thresholds Crossed - Gulag / Art Angar (Film 3:51)
- InVoluntary Encounters
- Collision Course - a.k.a Pillow Talk: Text, Streaming, and Dance
- TILT by mostly men..a spirited contest
- Vessel
- Matrimony - To Sink or Swim!
- Solosphere Project (Solovky Island, Russia)
- TOUCH 3 Festival - In Grass Tall (Arkhangelsk, Russia)
- Chroma
- InVoluntary Encounters
- Trans Action - ART LIVES HERE. OR NOT!
- Dance Portraits on Screen (Dance Films)
- Collision Course - Gala Opening Smith Center for Healing and the Arts
- MASQUERADE
- MindFluctuations
- Chain of Events
- Anonyty / Parts Unknown
- GLACIAL DRIFT
- Catalyst - Un-Dress
- Re-Re Voltaire - WPA 35th Anniversary - H Street Revitalization