ABOUT

BRET EASTERLING is a queer multidisciplinary artist, director, and educator creating performance, film, and community-based projects that center movement as a tool for connection, inquiry, and collective experience. He received his BFA and the Hector Zaraspe Prize for Choreography from The Juilliard School, was a formative member of Gallim Dance and became a prominent performer and contributor to Ohad Naharin’s internationally renowned Batsheva Dance Company.

Described as a “tour-de-force” by LA Dance Chronicle, Easterling has created and presented work across live performance and interdisciplinary platforms at institutions including Jacob’s Pillow, Lincoln Center, Baryshnikov Arts Center, 92NY, Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity, REDCAT, Opera Philadelphia, LA Dance Project, AMOC* (American Modern Opera Company), Whim W’Him, Backhausdance, b12, Dance Camera West, Dance on Camera Festival, and Hauser & Wirth. His collaborative practice includes projects with the John Cage Trust, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Kesha, and Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, and he maintains an artistic partnership with Julia Eichten as EICHTERLING, spanning choreography, curation, film, and fashion.

As Founder and Artistic Director of the LGBTQ+ nonprofit BEMOVING, Easterling builds infrastructure supporting the creation, presentation, and sustainability of dance. He is on faculty at the USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance, co-director of Ghost Light Residency, co-founder of PAY DANCERS, and an Ilan Lev Method practitioner, grounding his work in care for artists.