Monica Gillette is a dance dramaturg, facilitator and Co-Artistic Director of Tanztriennale Hamburg 2026. As a dramaturg she accompanied several European funded projects – Migrant Bodies – Moving Borders (2017-2019), Empowering Dance (2018-2023), Dancing Museums – The Democracy of Beings (2020-2021), Dance Well (2022-2025) and Aerowaves’ Moving Borders Project (2023-2025), as well as several choreographers in their artistic creations. She is a former researcher for EDN – European Dance Development Network, resulting in the 2024 publication titled Practices of Care and Wellbeing in Contemporary Dance: Evidence from the Field. Her work is informed by a lifetime of dance, both as a professional dancer and passionate believer in the role dance can play in personal and societal transformation.
