Monica Gillette
From Sweet and Tender
Monica is an American currently living in Germany. She dances, she shoots, she edits, she makes live and video performances.
Originally from Los Angeles, California, Monica was formally trained as a ballet dancer on scholarship at the Stanley Holden Dance Studio and the Joffrey Ballet. She later continued her studies in contemporary dance in New York City and Europe. She has performed across the United States, Europe, Mexico, Japan and Iran in both her own work as well as with choreographers Johannes Wieland, Joachim Schloemer, Patrick Corbin and Noemie Lafrance, among others. Most recently she has been involved in a collaborative project with António Pedro Lopes, called "Lights On Doesn't Mean We're Home." Monica is also an accomplished film editor and has worked on such shows as "The Sopranos" and Dick Wolf's "Crime & Punishment." In recent years she has combined her dance and film background for the creation of films for live performance as well as short films that have screened at festivals in Los Angeles, New York and Berlin. In 2007, Monica was awarded a DanceWEB Europe scholarship for Impulstanz in Vienna, Austria and in 2009 joined Physical Virus Collective at the Stadt Theater in Freiburg, Germany.
For two years she kept a video blog of one minute dance videos from her travels: www.danceminute.com
Photo by Rodrigo Valero Puertas of Monica Gillette and Antonio Pedro Lopes for "Lights On Doesn't Mean We're Home." Shot on location in Mexico City.
