about

Gabe Katz (he/him) is a dancer, choreographer, and educator based in Brooklyn, New York. He has a BFA in dance from Marymount Manhattan College, and is also an alum of The School at Jacob’s Pillow, HSPro at Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, and Springboard Danse Montreal. Gabe has performed repertoire by choreographers such as Ohad Naharin, Hofesh Shechter, Maxine Doyle, Peter Chu, Sonya Tayeh, Jenn Freeman, Larry Keigwin, Akira Uchida, and Rena Butler, and has performed with NYC based dance companies MADBOOTS DANCE, Hivewild, and NVA & Guests. His commercial credits include Gap, Puma, Eartheater, Shygirl, Paul McCartney, and Ryan Heffington. He was featured in Akira Uchida’s film “Still” which made its premiere on NOWNESS in 2022. Gabe has taught and choreographed at dance institutions around the country, creating numerous live works as well as dance on film. He was also a performer and swing in the final years of Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More in NYC.

artist statement

I am attracted to human beings for their smiles, the depth in their eyes, the subtlety in their gestures, the passion in their heads and hearts, and the infinity in their senses. These same things attract me to dance and performance. I am curious about the relationships between my thoughts, feelings and the tangible earth around me. I am a big salad of my own experiences, the experiences of those who have come before me and offered to share, and our inevitable futures.

I am interested in dance that both celebrates and distorts the human body, that reminds and reimagines, that creates symbiosis, and that makes those who interact with it feel alive, comforted, and sometimes even more lost than they were before. I am entertained by irony and the tension between humor and absurdity. I hope to encourage thought, deep thought, confused thought, complicated and nuanced thought. I am much more interested in gathering more questions than I am in answering them. Mostly, I am interested in patience.

I love to dance and perform like myself, as well as everything and anything my mind can imagine. Not everything is possible, but everything is imaginable. I love to feel empowered in my body, and I love to share that feeling with others through the exchange of movement. I take great care of the responsibility of education, of conversation, of being seen and heard. I also celebrate and embrace the ephemerality of performance, because everything’s important, but none of it matters. Or is it the other way around?

STILL - Nowness - Akira Uchida

PUMA NYFW FUTROGRADE - Choreographed by Holly Blakey

Sleep No More

“Emursive presents Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More - an award winning theatrical experience that tells Shakespeare’s Scottish tragedy through a film noir lens.”

Artistic Director - Felix Barrett

Associate Director and Choreographer - Maxine Doyle

Gabe was a performer and swing in the final cast of Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More in NYC.