Gabriela Petrov was raised in Toronto by Czech immigrant parents, and now lives in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. For fifteen years, Gabi has practiced postmodern approaches to performance including Mary Overlie's Six Viewpoints. She has studied Body-Mind Centering® for over a decade in five different countries and will graduate in spring of 2026 with her certification as a Somatic Movement Educator. In her artistic practice, Gabi uses somatic movement and improvisation to explore how we inhabit spaces of performance and everyday life. As a research associate with the Performative Urbanism Lab for Spatial, Social and Scenographic Experimentation (PULSE) she is expanding her inquiry to include how we embody spaces of encounter with emerging technologies. She is a faculty member in the Dept. of Theatre at Concordia University and has taught at McGill, and Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado where she received her MFA in Contemporary Performance under Wendell Beavers, Erika Berland and Barbara Dilley. Gabi develops and facilitates workshops for artists independently and in partnership with organizations.