Gabriel G Torres
COMMUNITY ARTIST +
INTERDISCIPLINARY DIRECTOR + WRITER
I am part of an ancestry of farmers, workers, believers and walkers; the journey which brings me, makes me faithful in the possibilities of a future, for myself and my people.
I am an artist who through poetry, theater, music, dance, performance, and technology, inquires on subjects and topis that have affected me, molded me, taught me. Many times, I do so for the following reasons:
Because there is something within me, I can not heal or digest on my own. Or because I know, humans around me, part of my community, are also in need of healing or digestion.
How myself as an immigrant, a queer person, an addict in recovery, can unpack the constraints of my own labels, then, offer insights into what make us all, a human community: love, faith, pain, journey.
I personally believe storytelling can't change the world, nonetheless, storytelling can activate world's change.
I am interested in activating storytelling projects that also think, about how to provide economic acceleration to underserved communities.
Imagine a compelling story serving as a catalyst to activate economic, physical, emotional, spiritual and/or intellectual growth to a community, through, a garden? a store? a community center? a workforce development program? a technology?
RESUME
RESIDENCIES | COMMUNITY PROJECTS | COMMISSIONS
NYC | Artist in Residence | LMCC Governors Island
NYC | Haus of Dust | The Laundromat Project | Loisaida Arts Center | Unity Technologies
NYC | Distant Bodies | The LGBT Center/Tank
NYC | Still: Performance for Inner Peace | Chashama
FELLOWSHIPS
NYC | Performance Fellow | Performance Project x University Settlement
NYC | MDOCS 2021 | Skidmore College
NYC | EMERGENYC | Hemisphere Institute
NYC | Workshop for Professional Artists | Creative Capital
THEATRE | PERFORMANCE
NYC | VR: Work In Progress | Co/Created wit Adriana Gaviria / SolFest x The Sol Project
NYC | This Soil These Seeds | Bonita Jackson | Super Secret Arts
NYC | Scribbled Lines | by Vanessa Rappa | Poetic Theater Productions
NYC | Haus of Dust | Teatro Circulo & The Tank | NYC
NYC | Caught in the Act | by Anna Parisi | The Immigrant Artist Biennial
NYC | The Bearded Woman | The Tank
NYC | Mañanaland | Assoc. Dir. | Meghan Finn, Dir. | The Tank
Virtual:
Lover Spy | PEA Fest
Propaganda | By DETEXT | The Tank NYC
Leo and His Friends | by Amalia Oliva Rojas | Theater Accident
Readings:
NYC | Real | By Rodrigo Nogueira | The Tank NYC
NYC | Dreamless | by Gabriel G Torres | The Tank NYC
Bogota | Nos Vamos Pa'l Mundial | Casa E
FILM
NYC | Haus of Dust | Experimental Immersive | Produced by Gabriel
NYC | Distant Bodies | Experimental | Virtual | Produced by Gabriel
Bogota NYC | It's a Match | Feature Film | Assistant Director | Dir. Rene Castellanos & Lia Nessim
NYC | Uncommon Voices : Wartime Canteen | Short Documentary | En Garde Arts
NYC | DK: Gardeneres Documentation | Short documentary | OSS Project
NYC | All Girs Got A Dream | Documentary | La Lucha Arts
NYC | Caught In The Act by Anna Parisi | Performance Video Art | Immigrant Artist Biennale
NYC | Copy of My Violent Colombian Mind | Performance Video Art | The House Art Show
NYC | Ode To The Stars | Video Art | Emerge NYC 2020
NYC | HOD Meditation | Video Art | (Open Studio ) The Laundromat Project
NYC | Still: Performance for Inner Peace | Video Art | Chashama
COMMUNITY PRACTICE | ADMIN
NYC | Community Engagement and Marketing Manager | The Tank NYC
NYC | FANDANGO FOR BUTTERFLIES (And Coyotes) | Community Consultant | En Garde Arts
NYC | Community Consultant | Oss Project
TEACHING ARTIST RESIDENCIES
NYC | Theater | Jamaican Center for The Arts
NYC | Theater & Film | Arts Connection
HK | Theater | Cue Drama
Colombia | Theater | Paz Caribe
EDUCATION
NYC | Master of Arts | Media Studies | The New School
NYC | Bachelor of Science | Media Studies & Writing | The New School
NYC | Taller Para Artistas | Creative Capital
NYC | Certificate | The Neighborhood Playhouse
Bogota | Certificate | Clown Technique | Iberoamerican Theater Festival