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Jane Gabriels is a performer, poet, singer and teaching artist.
Her poem-songs are influenced from coming up through the ranks at the legendary Nuyorican Poets Cafe and from attending nearly every Jeff Buckley concert at the Sin-e Café, NYC in the early 90’s.
She’s performed her solo work throughout NYC and Montreal and has collaborated with many choreographers on dance theater projects. These choreographers include the fabulous: Marianne Cheesecake, Ori Flomin, Jessie Flores, KJ Holmes, Melanie Maar, Antonio Ramos, Richard Rivera, Rokafella, Awilda Sterling, Sarah Williams, Alyson Wishnousky, among others. Gabriels has also worked with artists such as costume designer Christine Darch; visual artist Sam Gassman; musicians DJ Steph-Eye, Matt Heyner, Mike Kohler, Valerie Kuehne, Jack McKeever, Angel Rodriguez, Dorothy Scott and Jimi Zhivago; and collaborated with poet Stella Padnos Shea.
CURRENT WORKS
janejaneproductions.blogspot.com
MUSIC
"Jane Gabriels creates imagery wild and intricate as a woodland through voice - voice sung and voice spoken - with a casual jazz intimacy that makes it all look easy." --Vincent Tinguely, author of Impure: Reinventing the Word.
Jane's work "conjures word as sound and sound as poetics." K.J. Holmes, choreographer and performer.
myspace.com/janegabriels
MUSIC available through CDBaby
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East Village Love Affair |
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WORKSHOPS
She also gives creative workshops on movement and writing to writers, yoga practitioners, dancers and other multi-disciplinary artists.
“Thanks for a gentle and warm afternoon. I enjoyed the challenge. You have a very soft way of inviting people to take a chance.” -- Ramona Benveniste, visual artist, Montreal, Canada
"I wanted to let you know how motivating I found your lecture. It really made me realize how possible everything can be and how much we can be doing right now. Thank you so much for that!" - Sophia W., student, Dance Department, Concordia University Montreal
PERFORMANCE ARCHIVE
Call Me...
by Nikol Mikus in collaboration with performers Jane Gabriels and Alyson Wishnousky.
Peau d'Âne by Valérie Lamontagne www.valerielamontagne.com performed at Studio 303 as part of Concordia University's Humanities Annual Conference 2007-08
Lost Before Found
costume design by Sam Gassman
performed in collaboration with Ori Flomin and Antonio Ramos at:
P.S. 122, 100 Grand Street, Joyce SoHo
Flomin and Ramos, both veterans of the companies of Stephen Petronio, Kevin Wynn, and Neil Greenberg, performed the freaky Lost Before Found, accompanied by Jane Gabriels's mad, breathy spoken word, and almost dominated by Sam Glassman's psychosexual-Edward-Gorey set and costumes. The two men, clean, chunky movers both, shared an angry, sexual connection in their tense and tenuous partnering. Meanwhile, Gabriels waved her gauntlets with long twiggy fingers and moaned, half-laughed into the microphone, “I found you! We were lost a long time, but I found you…” The piece seemed an enticing snippet of still stranger journeys to come."
-- Tamsin Nutter, Dance Project Sequence Inc.
