GABRIELLE SAMUEL joined Garth Fagan Dance in April 2021. She hails from San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago, and trained at Eugene Joseph Trinidad Dance Theatre, The Alpha Theatrical Dance Company, The Shift Contemporary Dance Company, Marabella Open Bible Church Dance Academy and Caribbean School of Dancing. She studied Dance, African & African American Studies, and Archaeology at Washington University in St Louis. Gabrielle has experience in Modern, Ballet, Contemporary, Afro-Contemporary, Afropop, Liturgical, Horton, Dunham, Ghanaian dance, and Talawa Technique. She has worked with Raja Feather Kelly, Ronald K Brown, Cecil Slaughter, Kirven Douthit-Boyd, Jillene Forde and Joaquín Collado, among other choreographers. She enjoys GFD's fusion of Europeanist and Africanist dance vocabulary and is grateful for the family and friends whose support has made it possible for her to be here.