gabriela ceceña garcía
p e r f o r m a t i c a r t i s t
1991 - Mexico
Gabriela is a Mexican movement artist, choreographer, performer, and director. She studied in Brussels, Belgium, an important hub for the development of contemporary dance.
In cinema, she worked as a performer, actress, and choreographic assistant for the film "Emilia Perez," directed by Jacques Audiard, with choreography by Damien Jalet. Under Jalet's direction, Gabriela worked as a movement coach for the actresses Karla Sofia Gascón, Selena Gomez, and intensively with Zoe Saldaña. As well, Gabriela performed and assisted Damien Jalet in ANIMA: one reeler short film directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, starring Thom Yorke and Dajana Roncione where Gabriela coach and trained the actors through the dance process.
© Fernando Uzcanga
Together with José Ramón Corral they found FUTURET artistic initiative for the creation and production of contemporary dance in convergence with other disciplines from the city of Hermosillo, Sonora.
Gabriela has been invited to perform and teach at Le Facteur (Paris, France), Choreographisches Centrum (Heidelberg, Germany), L'Epicerie Moderne (Lyon, France), danscentrumjette (Brussels, Belgium), CEPRODAC (Mexico City), Entre suelo (Mexico City), among others.
As well she choreographed the visual album for Elsa y Elmar directed by Jorge Leyva, she co-directed and choreographed the videoclip “Luces de ti” for Daniel Quien. She was a choreographic assistant to Damien Jalet in the production OMPHALOS.
Gabriela received the EFICAS grant in 2023 for her production Boca de Loba, which toured in Mexico and Colombia. She was a recipient of the SACPC grant in the Creators with Trajectory category in 2022, during which she created the video dances La Laguna de La Lengua and Chivasloobas. In 2020-2021, she was awarded a fellowship from the Support System for Creation and Cultural Projects of the Mexican Ministry of Culture in the Jóvenes Creadores (Young Creators) category for the research of Monosodia, a dance film in collaboration with José Esteban Pavlovich. She also held the status d'artiste in France from 2018 to 2020.
As a dancer she worked with Damien Jalet, Meytal Blanaru, Kubilai Khan investigations, among others.