Gillian ebersole

Dancer.Choreographer.writer.

About

I am a dancer, choreographer, and poet. I teach dance, yoga, and Pilates in studios and community spaces, and I am passionate about making space for movement in our lives. My dance writing and poetry has been published in numerous journals and magazines.Drawing on my love of dance and language, I am drawn to creative projects that uplift stories to support a better world. My work spans sectors, with a particular focus in performing arts communications and grassroots nonprofit work. I have experience with SEO copywriting, institutional branding, email marketing, and web editing.In 2026, I co-founded FAR-FLUNG MOVES with my collaborator, wife, and creative muse, Shannon Nulf. You can learn more about our company at the link below.

WORK

Performance and Choreography
I frequently take on performance and choreography projects. I make dance for fans of queer love stories, for those in the closet, for recovering Catholics, for romantic cowboys, for tender hearts. My spirit of philosophical inquiry shapes my choreographic work, rendering the ordinary poetic and the divine quotidian. Inspired by my own quest to reconcile a conservative religious upbringing with the expansive nature of queerness, my artistic practice explores the joy of the spectrum between whimsy and grit, the distance between ease and rigor. I am interested in dance as lineage and as emancipator from that same lineage. Held together by gesture and stillness, my choreography interrogates structure by breaking it open into improvisation.Teaching
I am an experienced dance, Pilates, and yoga instructor. In all my classes, I foster an environment where students are not afraid to fail and feel empowered to participate in their own growth. My teaching does not rely on a “one-size-fits-all” perspective, instead centering and honoring the individuality of my students and the cultivation of a class community.Places I have taught: 33 Hawley (MA), Bard College at Simon's Rock (MA), Berkshire Pulse (MA), Community Access to the Arts (CATA - MA), Funk Box Dance Studio (MA), Hawthorne Science and Math Academy (CA), Premier School of Dance (CO), Superior School of Dance (MI), University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (IL)Classes I love to teach:

  • Contemporary floorwork and/or partnering

  • Ballet/pointe

  • Improvisation

  • Yoga

  • Pilates

  • Trans Dance Class (for nonbinary/trans folx)

  • Dance and voice/writing (composition-based)

Creative Copywriting
I support small businesses and nonprofits in the creative sector with copywriting, email campaigns, and website updates.Projects I love:

  • Website overhauls

  • Copyediting on a tight deadline

  • Designing and managing a weekly newsletter

  • Tracking SEO across web, email, and social media

My current client roster is full, but I evaluate projects on a seasonal basis. Reach out to me via email for a chance to connect.

WRITING

published January 2021
Born to break our hearts, these exquisite, dusk-blinding, quotidian and cancer-que poems seem to bruise easily, seem to breathe the language of queerness with such tender accusation, seem so fearless in their candid vulnerability. How can one not love a collection that has the following lines in its last two stanzas: “god is a highchair toddler / who laughs when her feet touch the grass”? or ends one of its poems with this ideal cheekiness: “The Spanish word for dress / is masculine.” These raspberry colored poems here are so smart and so transformative that they are capable of teaching anyone’s tea kettle how to stop sweating entirely.
~ Vi Khi Nao, Judge of the Charlotte Mew Chapbook Contest

Contact

gillianebersole [at] gmail.com