Gabriela Petrov was raised in Toronto by Czech immigrant parents, and now lives in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. She is a faculty member at Concordia University's School of Performance and a doctoral researcher working in the development of critical somatic pedagogies as frameworks for performance research-creation. She has taught artists independently and at institutions including McGill, and Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado where she received her MFA in Contemporary Performance. 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), Gabi is expanding her inquiry to include how we embody spaces of encounter with emerging technologies.