Publications
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in process 2024, in collaboration with EVR Design
Published in the FAMILIAS website, a site for research.
"Familias- created by Pepatián’s artistic directors Merián Soto and Pepón Osorio- was an artistic and curatorial breakthrough for art and community projects in the South Bronx. As part of local artistic-activist-curation legacies, Familias and inclusionary concepts like “inreach” help spark possibilities of growth by working with existing narratives and materials to create new limits, and valuable possibilities for other visions of utopias."
— Jane Gabriels, Ph.D. from Curating Live Arts: Critical Perspectives, Essays, and Conversations on Theory and Practice
Preview to an Introduction: Seika Boye and Thomas F. DeFrantz in Conversation
Published in TURBA: The Journal for Global Practices in Live Arts Curation March 2023
Configurations in Motion: Performance Curation and Communities of Colour (1–2 June 2017): Preview to an Introduction
I met with Thomas F. DeFrantz and Seika Boye in early 2023 to talk about Configurations in Motion: Performance Curation and Communities of Color—the gatherings, booklets, and the curatorial work—to ask how and if the work remains necessary. To think this through, we looked back at the 2017 conversation and the question posed about how we might cultivate a livable future. This brief essay is part of what resulted.
Configurations in Motion: Performance Curation and Communities of Colour (1–2 June 2017): By Way of Introduction
As curators of the third iteration of Configurations in Motion: Performance Curation and Communities of Colour in Montréal at Concordia University, in Québec, Canada, from 1 to 2 June 2017, we decided to begin with a few questions to set a frame for the essays that follow in this booklet of conference presentations. Here are our reflections.
If you are interested in reading this conversation education or research purposes, please contact: janejane7777@gmail.com
The Fellowship: Gloss Response from a Circle of Cedars, October 2020
Dear Erin,
I read this essay as an articulation of your practices and as a call to act and manifest them into reality. I also read this writing as its own realization in the world; a story with generative power, developed in community through the telling. ..........
published by imagined Theatres
Singing the East Village Awake: Jeff Buckley, the Sin-é and tales from home ~
A poetic contribution to the musical legacy of Jeff Buckley.
First featured in The Brooklyn Rail, “Jeff Buckley’s Iconic Flame” (May 2017).
Latina Outsiders Remaking Latina Identity
Latina Outsiders Remaking Latina Identity is an exploration of Latinas on the periphery of both Latina culture and mainstream culture in the United States. Whether they are deliberately rejected or whether they choose to reject sexist, classist, or racist practices within their cultures, the subjects of these articles, essays, short fiction, poems, testimonios, and visual art demonstrate the value of their experience.
Essay on the work of Merián Soto
Chapter 37. Tracing Elaine Summer’s Dance and Performance Lineage: Performance Notes
Published by Routledge
Beginnings are Everywhere:
Reflections on the Coastal First Nations Dance Festival
The Dance Current magazine, Volume 21, Issue 6
Join Jane Gabriels on her journey to the 2018 Coastal First Nations Dance Festival (CFNDF). Responding to the experience from a place of accompaniment, Gabriels pivots from viewer to witness. Includes a statement from Margaret Grenier on CFNDF’s ten-year anniversary
Curating Live Arts
Situated at the crossroads of performance practice, museology, and cultural studies, live arts curation has grown in recent years to become a vibrant interdisciplinary project and a genuine global phenomenon. Curating Live Arts brings together bold and innovative essays from an international group of theorist-practitioners to pose vital questions, propose future visions, and survey the landscape of this rapidly evolving discipline.
published by Berghahn Books
Configurations in Motion: Performance curation and communities of colour, 4th iteration
How do we imagine twenty-first century configurations of performance curation and presenting that acknowledge the particular concerns of audiences and artists of colour? How does performance that relates to people of colour fit into trends of contemporary curatorial practice?
Configurations in Motion: Performance Curation and Communities of Colour, 4th Iteration brought together performance curators, artists, and scholars from Vancouver, BC, and from various locations in the United States, to share work, develop resources, and build strategies for supporting performance in, for, and by Black, indigenous and communities of colour in Canada and the United States.
Configurations in Motion, performance curation and communities of colour Montreal 2017
Canadian and American performance curators, artists, and scholars gathered in Montreal June 1 and 2, 2017 to share work, develop resources, and build strategies for supporting performance in, for and by Black, Indigenous and communities of colour in Canada and the United States.
Convened by the department of Art Education at Concordia University, in collaboration with the University of Toronto and the Institute for Dance Studies, SLIPPAGE: Performance|Culture| Technology, and Duke University to explore topics that impact communities of colour.
Pepatián - Write Your Future vol.1
WRITE YOUR FUTURE: Collected essays 2017-2018-2019
Produced by Pepatián: Bronx Arts ColLABorative, this booklet features nine essays about Dance Artists with writers: Yasmeen Chism, Stephanie George, Melanie Greene, Nina Angela Mercer, Niya Nicholson, Joya Powell, Demetrius Shields
The Brooklyn Rail, Music:
Jeff Buckley’s Iconic Flame
Memory Water
Self-published book of poems with original artwork by Marisol Diaz, Lady-K Fever, Jose Ortiz, EmmaTapley (2005).
Jane Gabriels is a great eavesdropper – not the nosy, meddlesome one, but that one: the always curious and attentive poet, whether headspun in the rush of the lively Bronx or contemplating the elegiac she can be haunting and hilarious. Her poems are impressive varieties of movement and stillness. – Patrick Rosal, Poet
Book launch: Sin-e Bar (150 Attorney Street; when it was there!) with a poetry reading and dance performances by Alicia Diaz, Melanie Maar, Marion Ramirez, Antonio Ramos, Todd Williams.
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Dance by K.J. Holmes
photo by Marisol Diaz-Gordon
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Legba Sky
drawing by Lady-K Fever
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What I Remember
drawing by Jose Ortiz
YOUNG ROOTS, 2011-13
The Young Roots Performance Series began in 2011 as a creation of former Hostos Director Wally Edgecombe in collaboration with Project Director Jane Gabriels, Pepatian. The series supported the work of eight artists/groups: Noemi Segarra and Henry Cole, Raquel Z. Rivera and Catarina Dos Santos, Sita Frederick/Areytos Performance Works, Los Monstritos, Caridad De La Luz/La Bruja, Antonio Ramos, and Rokafella.
The purpose of the 2011-13 series was to develop a platform for emerging Latin@ artists to experiment with the artistic roots of Afro-Latino traditions to create new branches that reach into the future. This project also helped support Hostos as a creative incubator for new works.
Book of Anarchiving
Not Quite An Anarchive. There are now so many archives in the world, and ever more archiving. As a result, it is no longer a question of "the system" that presents itself, but rather many questions from so many systems, more in fact each day. The need for the anarchive has well and truly arrived. For if the archive promises order and authority, and the ability to do many things, it does so at a sometimes heavy price. The anarchive promises a way out of systems, often from within, to life's living. The Go-To How To Book of Anarchiving is a serial attempt to go where something's happening. - Andrew Murphie
This book was produced in a book sprint at the Distributing the Insensible event at Senselab, Concordia University, Montréal, in December 2016