Juliette Gomes

Contact Improvisation | Dance

(she/they)

Juliette Gomes is a mixed race Cape Verdean Portuguese embodied artist, dancer, and Earth scientist from the Pioneer Valley- unceded Nipmuc, Nonotuck, and Pocumtuc land. Juliette studied landscapes of memory, community resilience, and Earth’s systems at Oberlin College where they first encountered Contact Improvisation. They became fascinated with exploring somatic movement with an emphasis in incorporating place-based and interrelational connection into dance inquiries. Juliette has sought expansive opportunities for movement research in art residencies and dance intensives with a focus on Earth processes, racial justice, and queerness. Their somatic and place-based practice has taken them from Spain to France, Berlin to Southern Vermont, and now, back home to Western Mass.

In addition to dance, Juliette is multi-media artist, ceramist, and video creator. Their pottery practice is rooted in harvesting, transforming, and sculpting clay bodies. Their multi-media and film projects consist of contemporary themes of queerness, our climate crisis, and resisting cultural erasure.


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