Gabby Carmichael

I am a dance artist and movement educator currently living and working in Brooklyn, New York and Western Massachusetts. I determined to reveal myself with a provocative and compassionate voice. My artistic practice always begins with movement and I utilize my physical body as a method of inquiry, empowerment, and breath. By collaging my movement with language, sound, and visual design, I create a practice that foregrounds choreography- a place where I can further imagine, process, and embody. I am attracted to perspiration and risk, and my artistic work is eminently energetic and involves rigorous physicality paired with theatrics, vulnerability, and often comedy. My aesthetic is informed by my upbringing in Western Massachusetts, by the cloudy intersections of memory and grief alongside mountains, forests, rivers, and stars. While absorbed with notions of other-ing, other-ness, and being other-ed, I strive to create work that constructs and exposes intersectional, radical, queer narratives. 

My work has been presented at Smith College, Gibney Dance (Work Up 6.0), New Dance Alliance’s Performance Mix Festival, Movement Research at the Judson Church, BAAD Bronx, Center for Performance Research (Fall Movement), Triskelion Arts (Split Bill), and the School of Contemporary Dance & Thought (W.I.P.), among others. I have been in residence at The Field Center, MOTive Brooklyn, Leimay, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, and SCDT. I have taught contemporary and ballet technique at Smith and Hampshire College, in addition to teaching yoga throughout NYC. I hold a BFA in Dance and a BA in Biological Anthropology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and an MFA in Choreography from Smith College. I approach dance as both an embodied art form and a method of lived research. My choreographic work is driven by a curiosity about how the body stores, reshapes, and recalls information across time and within individual, collective, and cultural contexts.