Jane Gabriels, Ph.D.

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Jane Gabriels, Ph.D. (she/her) is a performer, writer, curator/producer.

She was recently a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Performance Studies, Simon Fraser University, and co-taught a course on WOMEN IN HIP-HOP FROM THE BIRTHPLACE with Caridad De La Luz and Rokafella at the University.

She’s worked for 20+years as Director of the non-profit, Pepatián:Bronx Arts CoLABorative, and in 2018, moved to Vancouver, British Columbia to work as Executive Director, “Dance West Network: connecting artists and communities in motion”, formerly known as “Made in BC - Dance on Tour,” an arts service organization that supports and connects dance artists with audiences throughout the province. 

She co-edited and contributed writings based on artists in The Bronx for the publications Curating Live Arts: Critical perspectives, essays, and conversations on theory and practice (Berghahn Books, 2018), and Essays from Configurations in Montreal: Performance curation and communities of colour (Duke Univ and Concordia Univ, 2018), as well as contributing an essay about dance maker Merián Soto to Latina Outsiders (Routledge Press, 2019). 

Jane produced two documentary videos: "Women in Hip-Hop Rep the Bronx” and "Out of La Negrura/Out of Blackness in the Bronx” (distributor: Third World Newsreel).

In Vancouver, she created an annual residency project to support emerging dancers and writers of colour.

She was interviewed by Soldanela Rivera, Notes from a Native Daughter. Audio available here.

Ideas about levitation are the focus of her next performance project. 

She believes in expansive thinking and motivating other artists to Go For It.

photo by Marisol Diaz-Gordon