Arturo Gonzalez is a Mexican-American dancer, artist, & educator, dedicated to promoting the arts in LA & beyond. Hailing from East LA, he graduated magna cum laude from Cal State LA, with a BA in Theatre Arts & Dance. He has performed works by Hae Kyung Lee, Bernard Brown, Deborah Brockus, Chisa Yamaguchi, Gracie Whyte, Greg Langner, Sean Greene, & Sandy Silva. He has performed at Seoul’s Int. Dance Fest in Tank, LA Dance Fest, Highways Performance Space, Theatre Raymond Kabbaz, and currently dances with BrockusRED, a contemporary jazz dance company. He is a teaching artist at LA Music & Art School, a nonprofit arts organization in East LA. Through his artistry and teaching, he strives to inspire & uplift the next generation of artists & create a more inclusive, vibrant arts community for all.

Arturo has dedicated his time to teaching dance & theater to underserved students in LAUSD, empowering them through the performing arts. 

From a young age, Arturo found joy in dancing at family gatherings and school functions, grooving to diverse music such as cumbia, salsa, pop, rock, & disco. At F. Bravo Med Magnet HS, he formed a drill team, choreographing pom, kick, & military routines for performances. He began his dance training at CSULA in modern, contemporary, ballet, and choreography from Chisa Yamaguchi, Rosanna Tavarez, Tanya Kane-Parry, Hae Kyung Lee, and Asha di Ningrat. Arturo performed with Hae Kyung Lee & Dancers while pursuing his degree. He trained in Afro-Latin, Horton, contemporary, and jazz at CSU Summer Arts in 2017 & 2018, with companies: Contra-Tiempo Urban Latin Dance Theater, Urban Bush Women  & Spectrum Dance Theater, & choreographers Donald Byrd, Tina Landon, Antonio Douthit-Boyd, John Todd, & Becca Sweitzer. 

Arturo also enjoys photography. He studied black-and-white, analog, & digital photographic approaches with F. Scott Schafer. His interest in photography intersects with his passion for dance.

Artist Statement:

Dance is vital to empowering, transforming, healing, and building community & should be accessible to everyone. My goal is to foster the arts in communities with few or no access to the arts. Through performance & teaching, I want to use movement to bring people together & enrich their lives. I am interested in informing how dance is a form of expression & a tool for social change. Alvin Ailey said it best "Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be returned to the people."