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Jane Gabriels was hired in 1999 by Pepon Osorio and Merian Soto to work at Pepatian and became Director in 2006. In addition to her work at Pepatian, Jane has worked with Latino and Bronx-based artists for over a decade. Highlights include: Project Director for The Young Roots Performance Series at Hostos Center for the Arts and Culture (co-author of 2010-12 grant awarded from the Rockefeller Foundation NYC Cultural Innovation Fund); Curator and producer of APAP@HOME (dance and performance showcase event with tour of South Bronx venues, initiated January 2011); Artist mentor with Bronx Council on the Arts (2008); Writer/Project Collaborator with Noemi Segarra's project PISO (2011-present); support team for Merian Soto's one-year residency at Wave Hill (2011-12); co-author of grant from the Jerome Foundation for Full Circle Productions (2012); grantwriter and project producer for Antonio Ramos artists residency at El Museo del Barrio; and writer/interviewer of artists for Movement Research Performance Journal and Bronx Dance Magazine (2004 – present). She has taught workshops on writing for artists at The Field in NYC, at the MAI/Montreal, arts interculturels and through Communiversity at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, as well as at Beta-Local in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She offers a creative movement and writing workshop, "The Lost, The Found, The Fantasy: Urban Meditation" at various locations: ArtSpot Productions in New Orleans, LA, and in Montreal at Mange Mes Pieds Studio and at La Elastica, where she recently completed a three-week artist residency. She will be leading this workshop at Performance Studies International conference in Leeds, U.K. in June 2012. Her dance theater solo work "City Markings" is being re-worked as part of a larger performance installation with three other international performers based in Montreal, Canada and poised for performances in the Bronx in 2012-13.

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