BIOGRAPHY
Gabe Katz (he/him) is a dancer, choreographer, educator, and director based in Brooklyn, New York. He has a BFA in dance from Marymount Manhattan College, and is also an alum of The School at Jacob’s Pillow, HSPro at Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, and Springboard Danse Montreal. Gabe has performed repertoire by choreographers such as Ohad Naharin, Hofesh Shechter, Maxine Doyle, Peter Chu, Sonya Tayeh, Jenn Freeman, Larry Keigwin, Akira Uchida, and Rena Butler, and has performed with NYC based dance companies MADBOOTS DANCE, Hivewild, and NVA & Guests. His commercial credits include Gap, Puma, Eartheater, Shygirl, Paul McCartney, and Ryan Heffington. He was featured in Akira Uchida’s film “Still” which made its premiere on NOWNESS in 2022. Gabe has taught and choreographed at dance institutions around the country, creating numerous live works as well as dance on film. Most recently, Katz premiered his film “MATTER” in collaboration with Miami Dance Collective, in 2025. He was also a performer and swing in the final years of Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More in NYC.
CLASS DESCRIPTION
In class, dancers can expect to deepen their thinking just as much as their sensitivity. We will begin with a guided improvisation with roots in somatics and anatomy built to help focus our thoughts, heighten our sensations, and broaden our physical potentials for movement. We will wrap up this improvisation with a brief conversation and reflection, giving us a chance to verbalize our physical experience. This moment of discussion is not only designed to inform my practice as an educator, but offer a chance for dancers to share what they would otherwise leave unexpressed. Perhaps releasing an undeveloped thought allows fellow dancers to empathize, express their own thoughts, and even shift the energy and sense of community of the space.
Next, we will continue into a movement phrase based in various contemporary techniques that not only incorporates ideas from our guided improvisation, but correlates our daily human selves to who we are in a dance space. We will explore the spectrum of our strengths and weaknesses, our range of textures and qualities, and surprise our own expectations. Practicing patience, listening, and belief in our imagination, let’s dance!