Gabrielle Revlock is a New York City–based performer, improviser, educator, and Bessie Award–winning choreographer. Her choreography has been presented nationally and internationally, including at the American Dance Festival, Gibney, The Flea, the Queens Museum, and venues in Japan, the Netherlands, Singapore, Hungary, Russia, and India. She has received support from organizations including the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New England Foundation for the Arts, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Independence Foundation, and the U.S. Department of State. As a dancer, she has performed for Lucinda Childs, Makini (jumatatu m. poe), Susan Rethorst, David Gordon, Christopher Williams, Vicky Shick, Bill Young, Nita Little, Almanac Dance Circus Theater, Jane Comfort, and Susan Marshall.
A practitioner of Contact Improvisation for nearly 25 years, Revlock teaches regularly in New York City and internationally. Recent teaching engagements include the European Contact Improvisation Teachers Exchange (Poland), Brinca Galicia Contact Festival (Spain), Ontario Regional CI Dance Jam, Montreal Annual Jam, Earthdance, and The School for Contemporary Dance & Thought. She has also taught Contact Improvisation at Smith College and Amherst College. Her writing on the therapeutic applications of Contact Improvisation and Restorative Contact appears in Resistance and Support: Contact Improvisation @ 50 (Oxford University Press, 2024). Revlock holds an MFA in Dance from Smith College and is co-producer of the NYC Contact Improvisation Festival. More at GabrielleRevlock.com.
