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Monica Gillette

Monica Gillette (US/DE) is a dance dramaturg, choreographer and facilitator. After dancing professionally she now shapes innovative projects utilizing dance as a vehicle for transdisciplinary research and multigenerational cultural exchange.

As a dramaturg and facilitator she has accompanied several European funded projects – Migrant Bodies – Moving Borders (2017-2019), Empowering Dance (2018-2023), Dancing Museums – The Democracy of Beings (2020-2021) and Dance Well (2022-2025). She has been collaborating with Yasmeen Godder since 2012, first as a performer and later as co-artistic director of the project Störung/Hafra’ah (2015-16), bringing together people living with Parkinson’s Disease, professional dancers and scientists to collaboratively research movement and for which they were awarded the Shimon Peres Prize in 2017.

As a choreographer she collaborates with Gary Joplin and Theater Freiburg, most recently creating works with people who have been impacted by cancer and topics related to gender identity and expression.

Productions, Films & Projects