co-Founder & Executive Artistic Director
González is a Afro-Latino American Dancer and Choreographer. Born and raised in Boston Massachusetts, González started dancing at a young age, where he was selected for Boston Ballet’s City Dance, Ailey Camp Boston and their after school program Act II. In late 2001 González enrolled at the Roxbury Center for the Performing Arts and after his first year of taking dance serious at the Roxbury Center, he decided to apply to a performing arts highschool called Boston Arts Academy. In 2006, he received the Boston Arts Academy’s Dance Award and the Young Arts Merit Award (National Foundation Advancement for the Arts) as well as the John Ross Award in 2007 for Theatre Excellence. During his training, Joe has participated in programs such as; Boston Conservatory’s Summer Intensive (2006), American Dance Festival (2004), Bates Dance Festival (2005) and SpringBroad Danse Montréal (2010 and 2011). After graduating high school as a Dance Major, Gonzalez went on to the Boston Conservatory where he was featured in many of the conservatory’s performances and presented his own works in the very seletive choreography showcase. Joe received his Bachelor’s in Fine Arts from the Boston Conservatory and has co-produced an evening performance and dance installation. González has toured and performed national and internationally as a full time performing artist with Anna Myer and Dancers (2005-2014), Deborah Able Dance Company (2011-2014 & 2017-2019), Prometheus Dance (2011-2014) and “A” Major Dance Company (2005-2014). Gonzalez has also danced with DMB|#DBdanceproject, Putty Dance Project, Dance IQUAIL, Zoé Dance, Danza Orgánica, Waheed Works, Boston City Ballet and David Dorfman Dance. As well as traditional holiday performances such as Black Nativity Boston since 2005. Joe is a former performing artist with Philadanco! (The Philadelphia Dance Company) and is currently a performing artist with Complextions Contemporary Ballet and Jo-Mé Dance Arts Inc. as their Resident Choreographer and co-Artistic Director/Founder. Performing and Choreographing has taken Joe around the world such as India, Scottland, Chile South America, London/Leicester UK, Netherlands, Germany, Canada, Luxembourg, Switzerland, and USA. Joe Has commissioned 3 works at Bryn Mawr College, 1 at Rowan University, 2 for Boston Conservatory at Berklee, The Philadelphia Dance Theatre, City Dance and many works for Jo-Mé Dance Theatre. As González continues to be a performing artist and choreographer, he also was the Artistic Director of Philadanco’s 3rd Company (D/3) since 2017 and is a dance professor at Temple University since 2018 and Georgian Court University since 2021. Joe will continue to perform, create work and co-directed Jo-Mé Dance while creating more space for his choreography to flourish! (Joe's website)