Gabrielle Revlock

Gabrielle Revlock is a performer, choreographer, movement educator and creator of Restorative Contact, a mindful body-centered empathy practice. Described by the press as inventive, mesmerizing, and intimate, her most recent choreographic work is focused on the concept of embodied anthropology, the use of found choreography to reveal subtle interpersonal dynamics, and cultural values. Her work has been presented across the USA, in Japan, Netherlands, Singapore, Hungary, Russia and India and in NYC at venues including New York Live Arts, JACK, Joyce Soho, The Flea and Gibney. Revlock has been awarded grants and fellowships from The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Independence Foundation, FringeArts LAB, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, SCUBA National Touring Network for Dance, Puffin Foundation, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Target Margin Theater Institute, American Dance Abroad and the US Department of State. As a dancer, she has performed for Lucinda Childs, jumatatu m. poe, Susan Rethorst, Christopher Williams, Vicky Shick, Bill Young and Jane Comfort. Revlock has been a practitioner of contact improvisation since 2003, is on faculty with Movement Research in New York City, one of the world's leading laboratories for the investigation of dance and movement-based forms, and is a facilitator of the Brooklyn Contact Jam.