“For me dance is definitely a visual art.” Gabrielle Revlock
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“For me dance is definitely a visual art.” Gabrielle Revlock
Gabrielle Revlock cringes slightly at the word “dancer” — the very sound of the syllables — and even more so at “choreographer,” though more and more she is making her living in both of those disciplines. A former Vassar art history major, Revlock approaches dance with a far more holistic approach than most of her contemporaries.
She refers to herself simply as a “maker,” and over the last two years her dancing and dance-makings have been increasingly in-demand on the local scene. Her latest, “SHARE!” is her largest undertaking to date, and it is being presented this week at the nEW Festival. “I feel like my [language preference] says something about how I create dances,” she says from her home in South Philly, just after a rehearsal. “It’s not about the actual meaning as much as it is about the way it sounds and feels.”
Revlock makes it a point to take part in the minute visual details of her pieces. She made the props for “SHARE!” and screen-printed T-shirts by hand, as she continually looks for ways to incorporate her other passions into dance. “I think of it like college applications: one strategy is to be really well rounded, and the other is to be really skilled in one discipline,” she explains. “I guess I just like to do a lot of different things.”
Revlock describes “SHARE!” — a 30-minute dance, incorporating a live musician and installation art — as a kind of synthesis of her journal entries. There is no definitive through-line, per se, but rather a meditation on the details, peculiarities, joy, playfulness and struggle of her everyday life. “It’s so hard for me to put the dance into words. I feel like it’s its own language, which is very hard to translate,” she says. “It’s a little problematic to just say ‘I’m going to make a piece about this.’ At least for me.”
'SHARE!'
Tomorrow, 9 p.m.
UArts Dance Theatre
1512 Spruce St.
$15, 215-359-7775
www.newfestival.net
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