gabrielle lansner & company creates visceral and intellectually stirring works that invite diverse cultural audiences to deepen their own emotional life.  Using the elements of dance, gesture, text and music we turn fiction and nonfiction into vivid, psychologically charged pieces of movement theater.

The company’s varied explorations include delving into the lives of Holocaust victims in the literary works of Bertolt Brecht and Cynthia Ozick, exploring adolescent yearning in Carson McCullers’ “The Member of the Wedding”, examining the nature of forgiveness in the work “Salt Chocolate”, and most recently celebrating the life of pop icon Tina Turner.

Lansner works in close collaboration with her performers to develop and create the work: embracing their individuality, their physical idiosyncrasies and their willingness to explore their own emotional lives as it relates to the characters that they are portraying.  Mining her own and her performers’ experiences and psyches to create work that is honest: from the heart, stirring the heart.

Since 1997 the company has performed to critical acclaim in New York City and Canada.  The work has been produced in NYC at The Peter Jay Sharp Theater at Playwrights Horizons, The Duke on 42nd Street, Walkerspace, HERE, New York Theater Workshop, The Joyce Soho, The Ohio Theater, The 92nd Street Y, Movement Research at the Judson Church and the Harbourfront Centre in Toronto.  In New York City the company has also been invited to perform at The American Living Room Festival, Culturemart and the Dancenow Festival.

The company has received multiple grants from The Harkness Foundation for Dance, The Puffin Foundation, and from the Alvin and Louise Myerberg Family Foundation.