Gillian Ebersole

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I make dance for fans of queer love stories, for those in the closet, for recovering Catholics, for romantic cowboys, for tender hearts. My spirit of philosophical inquiry shapes my choreographic work, rendering the ordinary poetic and the divine quotidian. Inspired by my own quest to reconcile a conservative religious upbringing with the expansive nature of queerness, my artistic practice explores the joy of the spectrum between whimsy and grit, the distance between ease and rigor. I am interested in dance as lineage and as emancipator from that same lineage. Held together by gesture and stillness, my choreography interrogates structure by breaking it open into improvisation.  

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past performances

why are we all still here

matinee performance

March 2025

Lenox Community Center | Lenox


This performance was supported in part by the New England Dance Fund.

parallel flamingo

commissioned site specific work

August 2024

Chesterwood | Stockbridge

kelp garden

short work with live sound score

May 2024

Daniel Arts Center | Great Barrington

NightWood

commissioned site specific work

December 2023

The Mount | Lenox

why are you all still here

excerpt

November 2023

LOCULUS Studios | Holyoke


 What does it mean to rediscover wonder as an adult? why are you all still here seeks to reckon with the feeling of finding characters in our lives that remind us of our past. 

duet on the veranda

commissioned site specific work

July 2023

Chesterwood | Stockbridge

why are you all still here

an evening of dance and live music 

7:30pm | Friday, June 23

The Foundry | West Stockbridge


 What does it mean to rediscover wonder as an adult? why are you all still here seeks to reckon with the feeling of finding characters in our lives that remind us of our past. 

Ode to... An Evening of Dance

 7:30pm | Friday, September 23

The Foundry | West Stockbridge


Curated by Gillian Ebersole, this show brings together Berkshire-based dancers and performers, all with works answering the question “What are you celebrating?” What emerges is a series of works focused on resilience, perseverance, and triumph.

In the Crook of the Elbow

excerpt 

June 2022

Jacob's Pillow | Becket


In the Crook of the Elbow asks the question “What is dance if not joy?”

Choreographer and poet Gillian Ebersole joins with dancer Shannon Nulf to explore the intersection of movement, spoken word, and embodied delight.

In the Crook of the Elbow

excerpt 

July 2022

Chesterwood | Stockbridge


In the Crook of the Elbow asks the question “What is dance if not joy?”

Choreographer and poet Gillian Ebersole joins with dancer Shannon Nulf to explore the intersection of movement, spoken word, and embodied delight.

In the Crook of the Elbow

 7:30pm | Friday, April 8

The Foundry | West Stockbridge


In the Crook of the Elbow asks the question “What is dance if not joy?”

Choreographer and poet Gillian Ebersole joins with dancer Shannon Nulf to explore the intersection of movement, spoken word, and embodied delight.

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