Gabriel Forestieri

Gabriel Forestieri was born in Louisiana raised in Detroit. After graduating with a BFA in Drama from Carnegie Mellon he joined Americorp and moved to San Francisco. His Americorp project was the restoration of Crissy Field, an effort to take a parking lot and restore it back to a salt marsh. He ended up staying and working in San Francisco in environmental conservation and restoration for five years. The experience of working with earth, learning the ecology of Northern California, and the process of transforming public space was life changing. Going back and forth between the worlds of dance and restoration became a frustration that built for five years. How could the two fields be integrated in a way in which neither lost? At some point it became clear that dance, not restoration, was his medium and this led to the creation of projectLIMB a performing arts co-op intent on communicating complex 21st century issues with creative cunning. ProjectLIMB has performed in Hawaii, Pittsburgh, Dallas, Paris, Rome, San Francisco, and New York City. ProjectLIMB’s work has been presented in NYC at DTW, The Tank, White Wave, The Puffin Room, and Symphony Space. Gabriel is currently a part of the Outer/Space creative residency sponsored by DTW. ProjectLIMB also received a fellowship to go to Hawaii and perform at the Ulua Theatre. Gabriel is an alumnus of the MFA (2006) dance program at NYU. He was a Dance Omi International Dance Collective Resident in the summer of 2005 and was nominated for a total of four Isadora Duncan awards (San Francisco’s highest dance achievement) in 2004 and 2005. He has had the pleasure of working with choreographers: Risa Jaroslaw, Foofwa d’Imobilite, Heather Mcardle, Keith Thompson, Bill Young, John Jasperse, Tomi Pasoneen, Scott Wells, Erika Shuch, Christine Cali, and Kristin Heavey.