ABOUT

Bret Easterling is a queer dance artist, educator, and producer based in Los Angeles, California. After receiving his BFA from The Juilliard School, Bret was a formative member of Gallim Dance and a recognizable contributor to Ohad Naharin’s internationally acclaimed Batsheva Dance Company. 

Bret is on faculty at the USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance and a certified Gaga teacher who stages Ohad Naharin’s works at dance programs and companies around the world.  He has built and presented his own choreographic works through spaces including Jacob’s Pillow, LA Dance Project, b12, Whim W’Him, REDCAT, and Hauser & Wirth and in collaboration with music artists including Ai Bendr, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, and Jurassic Spine.

As the Founder and Artistic Director of BEMOVING, an LGBTQ+ led nonprofit that builds nurturing environments for the research, development, and dissemination of dance works and movement practices, Bret invests in the Los Angeles cultural ecosystem through programs like the Ghost Light Residency,  a program which awards choreographers from historically marginalized groups time, space, and honorariums to further their own creative practice inside of proscenium theaters of the greater Los Angeles area.