Movement artist, director & theatre-maker Gabrielle Moleta invites listeners into a creative process that dissolves the perceived boundaries between humans and the natural world.
In this episode, Gabrielle shares her journey into Transformation and Imaginative Improvisation, and how this unique creative process helped her recognise the depths of her interconnectivity with the living world. Now the Founder of the Company Gabrielle Moleta, her work trains artists to fully absorb the essence of an animal and, through theatre, share the stories that emerge.
In Gabrielle’s We As Nature story, she shares:
- Her unexpected journey from being a dance-obsessed child, uninterested in animals, to discovering her life’s work as a theatre-maker who spends years observing a single animal.
- The actor training that led her to Catherine Clouzot and the Transformation and Imaginative Improvisation approach and how this lineage was passed down to her.
- A window into the process of observing and absorbing the essence of animals and how this unlocks theatre characters and stories.
- How this work has changed the way she perceives and senses the world around her.
- The qualities that emerge in both actor and audience from coming into contact with this approach.
Find out more about Gabrielle’s work at Company Gabrielle Moleta and watch the Hawk Documentary here. Connect with Gabrielle on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.
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About Gabrielle:
Gabrielle is a movement artist, director, theatre maker and acting coach. She works in theatre, film and dance and has fed physical language into all strands of performance from actor training through to small and large-scale theatre, contemporary dance, film and performance capture.
In 2005, Gabrielle was chosen by Catherine Clouzot to become the sole UK apprentice in the body of work known as Transformation and Imaginative Improvisation. As inheritor of Catherine’s unique process, Gabrielle continues its direct lineage.
Her theatre company, Company Gabrielle Moleta, works using observation of animals at the centre of the pieces they make. It is slow, highly physically focused work, sometimes painstaking, requiring of the company members that they give all their attention to the animal in focus. It is only when they are fully immersed in the animal in its environment that new human, animal stories emerge. Looking at our human world through an animal lens allows audiences to be brought into stories where it is possible to imagine what we could still be and perhaps how we might still live.
You can find out more about Gabrielle’s work here.
Illustrations by Rohama Mailk.
Movement artist, director & theatre-maker Gabrielle Moleta invites listeners into a creative process that dissolves the perceived boundaries between humans and the natural world.