Curation and Artist-Presenter Relations

In this session, you will gain valuable insights into PuSh’s curatorial vision and explore how to promote creative projects effectively within contemporary performing arts markets. This workshop is tailored specifically for STAND artists, providing a unique platform to learn from industry experts and enhance your approach to artistic promotion and festival participation.

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About Instructor:

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Gabrielle Martin (She/Her) is a cultural producer and live art curator who practices transformative experiential design in one of society’s few remaining ritual spaces. Her work prioritizes embodied criticality, imagination, pluralism, and risk. It centers the body and is framed by social and political urgency.

Gabrielle has a BFA in Contemporary Dance from Concordia University (Montréal), a Certificate in Dramaturgy from the Centre National des Arts du Cirque (Châlons-en-Champagne), and an MA in Arts and Cultural Management from Rome Business School.

Recently, Gabrielle has participated on curatorial and selection juries for Denmark’s CPH Stage International Days, England’s Horizon Showcase, and Canada’s Governor General’s Performing Arts Award in Dance. Before joining PuSh in 2021, she worked as a Festival Manager with the Vancouver International Dance Festival. Before working in arts management, Gabrielle performed over 1,400 shows internationally with Cirque du Soleil’s TORUK – The First Flight and Cavalia, participated in choreographic residencies in Belgium, Sweden, and France, and presented her work in the UK, US, and across Canada.

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Headshot-photo by: Jeremiah Hughes

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