GABRIELLE CIVIL (she/ her) is a black feminist performance artist, originally from Detroit MI. She has premiered fifty performance artworks around the world, most recently Vigil, an online durational work for the Northern Spark festival (2021) and Jupiter premiered at the Salt Lake City Performance Art Festival (2021). She danced with Gender Tender for Melted Riot at the Henry Gallery (2020) and danced with Wild Beauty for MLK at Velocity Dance Center (2020). She has studied improvising while black with mayfield brooks, Yorchha technique with Ananya Dance Theatre, and performance strategies with La Pocha Nostra. Her performance memoirs include Swallow the Fish (2017), Experiments in Joy (2019), ( ghost gestures ) (2021), and the déjà vu (2022). Her writing has also appeared in Dancing While Black, Kitchen Table Translation, New Daughters of Africa, and Experiments in Joy: a Workbook. A 2019 Rema Hort Mann LA Emerging Artist, she teaches at the California Institute of the Arts. The aim of her work is to open up space.