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She has since performed for commercials, music videos, theatre, musicals and festivals. She also loves the battle scene and was a finalist at the 2021 Creative Boost battle at Place des Arts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Her work as a choreographer is characterized as quirky, theatrical and funky and is proof of her diversified training. In 2020, Gabriela choreographed for MOON an outdoor digital art installation for the city of Montreal. She also completed #dailygabyj, where she created 365 dance videos between 30 \u2013 60 seconds. In 2021, she presented her first short dance video &#8216;Playtime&#8217; for Bouge d&#8217;Ici and co-choreographed &#8216;Seul.e.s Ensemble: Club Edition&#8217; as part of the Montreal Fringe Festival.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In her work, she explores mental health and the representation of self with the use of space and objects through characters, humour, storytelling and the dance style whacking. Gabriela is an original, versatile and theatrical emerging artist, and she is excited to continue discovering the world of creation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>INNOCENCE<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Innocence<\/em> is a whacking dance short film project, inspired by board games and &#8216;murder mystery&#8217; films. It aims to highlight the story-telling, drama and individuality of the characters of Whacking, a late 1960s club-culture style inspired by the Golden Age of Hollywood, cartoons and disco music.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My research explores character interaction and narration through whacking and creating a live game, where dancers and audience members follow rules to find out who is \u2018the culprit\u2019. As in a game of chess, each character has their way of moving, and their mannerisms, actions, poses and whacks. There&#8217;s tension, drama and a bit of humour.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2022, in collaboration with up to 7 dancers, I created a 2-minute dance video, presented a 3-minute piece at Articien and a 15-minute piece at the Art-fullness Whacking Festival on this same theme. Through Alliance, Innocence will benefit from mentorships in vernacular jazz, mime and filmmaking techniques to enrich my whacking and choreographic practice for this project. This support provides access to the desired level of skill and artistry to bring this film to life.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Credit photo: David Jouary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":15862,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"role":[395],"cities":[137],"data_type":[141],"joint_mentorship":[],"class_list":["post-15942","artist","type-artist","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","artists-23-24","program-alliance-en","discipline-dance","role-artist-en","cities-montreal-en","data_type-artist"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.13 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Gabriela Jovian-Mazon &mdash; MAI | Montr\u00e9al, arts interculturels<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/m-a-i.qc.ca\/en\/artist\/gabriela-jovian-mazon\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Gabriela Jovian-Mazon &mdash; MAI | Montr\u00e9al, arts interculturels\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"As a child, Gabriela Jovian-Mazon started with Mexican folklore dance in her hometown town Mississauga, Ontario and competed in jazz, ballet and musical theatre [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/m-a-i.qc.ca\/en\/artist\/gabriela-jovian-mazon\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"MAI | Montr\u00e9al, arts interculturels\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/mtlartsinter\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-02-24T18:35:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/m-a-i.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Gaby-3.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1335\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"2000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@mtlartsinter\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/m-a-i.qc.ca\/en\/artist\/gabriela-jovian-mazon\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/m-a-i.qc.ca\/en\/artist\/gabriela-jovian-mazon\/\",\"name\":\"Gabriela Jovian-Mazon &mdash; MAI | Montr\u00e9al, arts interculturels\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.m-a-i.qc.ca\/en\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2024-02-22T18:15:02+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-02-24T18:35:05+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/m-a-i.qc.ca\/en\/artist\/gabriela-jovian-mazon\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/m-a-i.qc.ca\/en\/artist\/gabriela-jovian-mazon\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/m-a-i.qc.ca\/en\/artist\/gabriela-jovian-mazon\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Accueil\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/m-a-i.qc.ca\/en\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"gabriela jovian-mazon\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.m-a-i.qc.ca\/en\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.m-a-i.qc.ca\/en\/\",\"name\":\"MAI | Montr\u00e9al, arts interculturels\",\"description\":\"La perle des arts interculturels au c\u0153ur de Montr\u00e9al. 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