Gavin McDowell is a Cambridge-based queer, trans, and non-binary dancer, maker, multi-disciplinary movement-based performance artist, and community organizer. They are interested in partnering, somatics and experiential movement, improvisation, installation, durational performance, and multi-disciplinary and multimedia performance, drawing on themes of queerness, community, intimacy, relationship to self and community, delight, pleasure, and play. Their movement and community building practice is rooted in queerness, polycentrism and community, experimentation, curiosity, and abundance.
As a dancer, they have training in Horton-based Modern Dance, Graham technique, competitive ballroom dance, and contemporary improvisation and performance, and they have experience in a variety of styles including Gaga, Contact Improvisation, Hip-Hop, Argentine Tango, Fusion, Lindy Hop, Pole, and others.
They have performed in original dance works by Wendy Jehlen, Jenny Oliver, Jill Johnson, Chanel DaSilva, Peter Chu, and others. They have experience with site-specific movement works, they have choreographed and performed original works as a member of the Harvard Ballroom Dance Team, and they have created multimedia and VR installation works.
Since 2023, they have hosted and facilitated Choreo Lab, a free weekly informal community movement space focused on movement research and creative process development for movers of any level.
As a dancer, they have training in Horton-based Modern Dance, Graham technique, competitive ballroom dance, and contemporary improvisation and performance, and they have experience in a variety of styles including Gaga, Contact Improvisation, Hip-Hop, Argentine Tango, Fusion, Lindy Hop, Pole, and others.
They have performed in original dance works by Wendy Jehlen, Jenny Oliver, Jill Johnson, Chanel DaSilva, Peter Chu, and others. They have experience with site-specific movement works, they have choreographed and performed original works as a member of the Harvard Ballroom Dance Team, and they have created multimedia and VR installation works.
Since 2023, they have hosted and facilitated Choreo Lab, a free weekly informal community movement space focused on movement research and creative process development for movers of any level.
