Monica Gillette is a dance dramaturg, facilitator and Co-Artistic Director of the Tanztriennale in Hamburg in 2026. As a dramaturg she accompanied several European funded projects – Migrant Bodies - Moving Borders (2017-2019), Empowering Dance (2018-2023) and Dancing Museums - The Democracy of Beings (2020-2021), Dance Well (2022-2025) and Aerowaves’ Moving Borders Project (2023-2025). She is a dramaturg and transformation coach at Tanzhaus Zürich and researcher for EDN - European Dance Development Network, resulting in the 2024 publication titled Practices of Care and Wellbeing in Contemporary Dance: Evidence from the Field.

In the context of Dance Well, Gillette has led dance classes, offered workshops in teacher training programs, facilitated knowledge exchange sessions and accompanied the project as a dramaturg for several years. Her own journey with dance and Parkinson’s began in 2014 with Mia Habib and the project Brain Dance and continued with Yasmeen Godder as Co-Artistic Director of the project Störung/Hafra’ah, bringing together people living with Parkinson’s, professional dancers and scientists to collaboratively research movement and for which they won the Shimon Peres Prize in 2017.