Gabriela Tarcha was born in São Paulo (Brazil) in 1981.
She studied dance at Unicamp and at Anhembi-Morumbi University in São Paulo before graduating from the dance-makers department at ArtEZ in Arnhem in 2005. She has been working as a free-lance maker and performer in a number of projects and collaborations in Portugal, Brazil, Cyprus, Greece, Austria, Germany, Spain, Holland and UK. Her pieces were performed at ITS Festival in Amsterdam, ACT Festival in Bilbao, MAYDAY! in Antwerpen, TANZ|hautnah in Cologne, at.tension#2 in Lärz, off limits in Dortmund, Theatermaschine in Giessen, 638kg Tanz und weitere Delikatessen in Essen, KoCa inn in Weimar and Dance Kiosk in Hamburg, among others. She has worked in choreographic residencies at tanzhaus-nrw in Düsseldorf and artblau tanzwerkstatt in Braunschweig. In 2008 she took part in the event CORPOCIDADE with an urban intervention at the centre of Salvador da Bahia, Brazil. Since many years she works with Alexandra Waierstall, performing lately Crossing Borders at tanzhaus-nrw, kampnagel and The Place. In 2010 she concluded her Master in Choreography at Dance Unlimited Arnhem and now she spends her time mostly between Cologne and Berlin.