my work is compelled by the reality of our deep interconnectedness. turning to interoceptive curiosity to attune to forces of nature and the more than living, my practices straddle spiritual and material realms.
lily gold (she/they) is a white, queer, chronically ill, fourth-generation new yorker of the anti-zionist jewish diaspora, making dance and interdisciplinary art. using improvisatory methods to generate movement, text and song—the material collides, tears, weaves and unravels into performance. absurdly specific and playful with mess, gold’s work attempts to answer probing questions and embraces contradictory truths with reverent irreverence. perhaps maximal in subtle disguise, their dances are dynamic worlds within which the audience is tossed a raft to float the rivers of their emotion.
gold’s choreographic and visual work has been presented by Danspace Project, First Street Gallery, MoMA/Judson Memorial Church, and Movement Research, among others. She has been an Artist in Residence at Movement Research, AUNTS, ZIL Cultural Center, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, CEC ArtsLink, Bushel Collective, Pillow Fort Arts, and a spacegrant recipient at Brooklyn Arts Exchange. as a performer she has collaborated with Faye Driscoll, devynn emory, Andrea Geyer, Larissa Velez-Jackson, Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born, Tere O’Connor, Vicky Shick, and Walter Dundervill, among others.
gold is a trauma-informed somatic therapist, officiant, witch and organizer—accountable to larger liberatory movements within and beyond creative practice. they live among occupied lands of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy in Walton, NY, and remain in relationship with their community and performance home in NYC.