Gabriele Christian is a San Francisco-based movement artist, director, curator, dramaturg, and descendent of stolen folk. Experimenting within somatic practices, language, performance composition, video production and community arts facilitation, they locate and center BlaQ (Black and Queer) experience, vernacular, and aesthetics as wellsprings for radical futurity. They perform original work and collaborate trans- and inter-nationally, most recently in Berlin, New York City, Vienna, and Amsterdam. They currently serve as Executive Director and Co-Artistic Director of Jess Curtis/Gravity (
https://www.jesscurtisgravity.org/), a body-based arts and accessibility non-profit living on in the wake of Jess Curtis’ transition in March 2024.