Attention is a 2-day workshop that approaches choreography as a collective practice of perception, relation, and formal inquiry. Working through questions of attention, landscape, rhythm, and group structure, participants will explore how bodies organize space together, how environments shape movement and sensation, and how choreography can emerge through sustained acts of noticing, listening, and collective attunement.

Drawing from improvisational scores, durational exercises, flocking structures, and compositional studies, the workshop treats attention not simply as focus, but as a social and spatial practice: a way of orienting toward others, toward environment, and toward the unfolding conditions of the present. Participants will engage movement as both embodied research and formal construction, examining how collectivity produces shifting relations between abstraction, commitment, atmosphere, and form.

Through movement, discussion, and collaborative experimentation, the workshop invites participants to consider choreography as a mode of study grounded in duration, perception, and the evolving dynamics of the group.

Saturday, May 22nd, 2027 • 10am-4pm

Sunday, May 23rd, 2027 • 10am-4pm

Sliding scale: $125-$275

LOCATION: THE WHOLE SHEBANG

1813 S 11th St
Philadelphia, PA 19148

About Jonathan

Jonathan González is a choreographer, artist, and writer whose interdisciplinary practice moves across performance, sound, film, and text to explore how relation, sensation, and atmosphere organize collective experience. Working through long-term collaborative processes, González develops choreography as a site of embodied research, formal experimentation, and distributed attention, where bodies, environments, and sound co-produce shifting social and perceptual conditions.

Their work has been presented nationally and internationally, including projects with The Kitchen, Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Carnegie International. González is the author of Ways to Move: Black Insurgent Grammars (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2025), and their work has been supported by honors including the Pew Fellowship and the Herb Alpert Award in Dance. They are Assistant Professor of Dance at Hunter College (CUNY), where they teach courses in embodied research, performance studies, and interdisciplinary performance practice.