Screen Dances

Cat Dance, 2019 1:10 mins

Gabriel Gonzalez and Adanya Gilmore

Overview: This video serves as a reminder of my introduction into creating Dance works for the Screen. Screen Dances. Filmed with a Macbook Pro, and the app Photobooth before the unceremonious removal of the app's greenscreen function.

Things Are Not Fine, 2020 2:48 mins

Gabriel Gonzalez

Overview: Created for Chicago's 2020 virtual TIP Festival. This was a reactionary piece to the state of the world and to performances I was witnessing that failed to transfer the energy of live performance to the desktop format. Here is where I began playing with the idea of Desktop as Stage and where I allowed myself to be frustrated by the precarity, precision, and planning that goes into choreographing for the camera when you are also physically isolating.

Sex Paranoia Visualizer, 2020, 3:58 mins

Gabriel Gonzalez

Overview: Originally posted to Instagram November 14th 2020 with the caption 'paranoid'. Here is a video which forgoes a long tracking shot for an emphasis on tight musical editing and the visualization of music. Alone in isolation, I was interested in the power of the vertical format, the power of sex and sexuality in media and advertisement, and the strangeness of having intimate relationships rely on what felt like a streamer-watcher relationship.

Charli XCX Claws Recreation

Gabriel Gonzalez

Overview: Originally posted on Instagram as part of my announcement post that I had run away to Taiwan on a Fulbright after virtual graduation. The piece was an exercise in copying Charli's video for Claws frame by frame adapting the original video into a vertical format to better use CapCut's vertical editing capabilities. The software was so intuitive compared to other programs I had struggled to learn and allowed me the ability to copy the frame by frame, DIY style Charli was creating.

Things Are Still Not Fine, 2021 8:49 mins

Gabriel Gonzalez

Overview: Content Warning: Nudity and Sexuality. Premiered on Saturday March 6th, 2021 @ 7pm EST; With live Q&A and Sunday March 7th, 2021 @ 5pm EST; With live Q&A “This Body Shows Up” amplifies queer/women/non-binary/BIPOC performing artists during the Covid-19 pandemic and social isolation. "This Body Shows Up" will featured works by: Sara Roer, Diane Tomasi, and Marcie Yoselevsky. And works by special guest artists Sophiann Mahalia, Gabriel Gonzalez, Anabella Lenzu, and Maya Lam.

This was one of the first Dance Festivals I was able to be a part of as a paid contributor and someone with full artistic decision. I had just finished quarantine in Taiwan and was working with Princess Grace Award winning choreographer Estrella Supernova over Zoom and created this as a homage to Sophie, and as a sort of "creative graveyard" for everything that wasn't working in Estrella's work.

UIUC Audition Rehearsal, 2022 0:00 mins

Gabriel Gonzalez

Overview: In this work I began to hone in on elements that would become signature during my time in graduate school. Being my own stagehand, creative 'hacking' of Zoom's green screen functionality, and lip sync. I use this term 'hacking' in quotes because I was purposely misusing the software and replacing the lost green screen functionality of photobooth in anyway I knew how. The fact that I could screen record myself and upload the video as a smaller formatted video file for the background, making myself essentially invisible, was a discovery I made through recording and then performing this performance.

far from the gua bao, 2022

Gabriel Gonzalez

Overview: Created for 2022's Elevate Dance Chicago produced by Chicago Dancemakers Forum. Originally screened at the Chicago Cultural Center.

Dance Church Application "self-tape", 2023

Gabriel Gonzalez

Overview: This is a more commercial video I used to apply for a job with the Seattle based company, Dance Church. Focusing on the in-class movements, I wanted to further hone an aesthetic based in DIY and experiment that rejected polish in order to make something truly original and useful.