Justin Cabrillos

Justin Cabrillos is a choreographer, artist, and writer based in Brooklyn. His work has been commissioned by The Chocolate Factory Theater (NY), Danspace Project (NY), and the IN>TIME Series in Chicago. Cabrillos has presented work at the Cultural Center of Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Roulette (Brooklyn), Movement Research at Judson Church, and Links Hall in Chicago. His new solo Untitled will premiere at the Momentary in Arkansas in 2024. He was an artist-in-residence at Movement Research and is the recipient of residencies at Yaddo (NY), Zero Point Berlin, The Center for Performance Research (Brooklyn), Ucross, and The Momentary (Arkansas). He was a 2016 danceWEB scholar at ImPulsTanz in Vienna under the mentorship of Tino Seghal and a recipient of a Greenhouse grant from the Chicago Dancemaker's Forum. As a performer, he has worked with Jen Rosenblit, Julie Mayo, Every House Has a Door, and Jeremy Shaw. He holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MA in English literature from the University of Washington, Seattle. He has taught workshops that combine dance and somatics to explore affect and feeling, and is currently a Lecturer in the English Department at Borough of Manhattan Community College.