Monica Gillette (US/DE) is a dance dramaturg, choreographer and facilitator. After dancing professionally she now shapes innovative projects utilizing dance as a vehicle for transdisciplinary research and multigenerational cultural exchange. As a dramaturg and facilitator she has accompanied several European funded projects – Migrant Bodies - Moving Borders (2017-2019), Empowering Dance (2018-2023), Dancing Museums - The Democracy of Beings (2020-2021) and Dance Well (2022-2025). She has been collaborating with Yasmeen Godder since 2012, first as a performer and later as co-artistic director of the project Störung/Hafra’ah (2015-16), bringing together people living with Parkinson’s Disease, professional dancers and scientists to collaboratively research movement and for which they were awarded the Shimon Peres Prize in 2017. As a choreographer she collaborates with Gary Joplin and Theater Freiburg, creating works with people who have been impacted by cancer as well as topics related to gender identity and expression.