Center

Beth Goheen

Nina Goldman

Woman of color looking at the camera as her hand gracefully touches her head.

Mai Lê Grooves

House

Dava Huesca

Contemporary Floorwork

Catherine Kirk

Maki Kitahara

Melt Method

Nicholas Korkos

José Lapaz-Rodriguez

New Way Vogue

Aaron Loux

Daniel Mantei

Giada Matteini

Black man dancing as his hands cover his face towards the camera.

Cameron McKinney

Nagare Technique

MICHIYAYA

Sharon Milanese

A white woman dancing with her right leg in the air.

Jennifer Nugent

Dancing Grounding Tuning

Donnell Oakley

Janet Panetta

Teresa Perez Ceccon

Simonson Jazz/Latin Jazz

Katy Pyle

Thryn Saxon

Nicholas Sciscione

Man of color looking at the camera behind his arms that are twisted.

Jason A Rodriguez “Slim”

New Way Vogue

Maleek Washington

Kat Wildish

Ryan Yamauchi

The Dragon Sisters

Heels

Photo of a Black man looking at the camera with his right hand resting on his face.

Gilbert T Small II

Training Programs

Training Programs offer full-time and seasonal opportunities for international and domestic dancers to deepen their experience both in and out of the studio.

Our aim is to offer a well-rounded training ground for dancers to improve their artistic and physical abilities while growing as critical thinkers, community builders, and artist-entrepreneurs.

Gibney PRO

Gibney PRO prepares emerging dance artists to thrive in a dynamic artistic landscape and facilitates a global network of professional relationships, including an intrinsic connection with Gibney Company.

Visa & Professional Training Program

Gibney’s Visa & Professional Training Program, developed by Jessie Kardos, offers students from around the world an opportunity for immersive study over 3, 6, 9 or 12 months.

The program includes options for professional or aspiring professional dancers. Each student selects a Program Track and builds a customized weekly class schedule based on their interests and professional goals.

Gibney Training fosters a supportive, non-judgmental environment where dancers can take risks, have fun, and grow while training at an advanced level.

Summer and Winter Study

In-Person at Gibney’s two Manhattan locations, these programs are designed to build a supportive network and community, expose students to new and challenging ideas and movement styles, and share preparatory tools for building a sustainable career in the performing arts.

NYC WINTER STUDY
NYC Winter Study provides dancers with an immersive experience in the NYC dance community over two weeks in early January. Applications open in October and close in December.

NYC SUMMER STUDY
NYC Summer Study provides dancers with an immersive experience in the NYC dance community over four weeks in June and July. Applications open in January and close in April.

Engagement

Stewarded by Director Amy Miller, Gibney’s Engagement initiatives value a sense of reciprocity through learning exchanges in NYC and around the world. In a world that socializes us to hierarchically separate and label, we interrupt that default patterning by valuing the generative meeting points across dualities. We connect confidence and curiosity and navigate ever closer to revealing a balance between structure and choice, abstraction and embodiment, the individual and the collective. We acknowledge the ever-shifting overlaps between the roles of teacher and student as we cultivate a sense of life-long learning manifested as both catalyzing action and revealing what’s already there. Gibney’s Engagement programming centers around three main priorities: School Programs, Moving Toward Justice initiatives and Artist Services.

School Programs

Gibney’s School Programs partner with and amplify the work of many hard-working educators at colleges, universities and dance schools far and wide by offering group learning experiences both in NYC and around the country. We welcome student groups for multifaceted experiences in NYC at 280 Broadway through Gibney’s Group Study programming, Gibney Company can travel to you for residencies on campuses nation-wide, and we develop multi-year partnerships with academic institutions toward deeper exchange.

GROUP STUDY
Gibney Group Study proudly offers customized, immersive programs for students around the world. Designed to provide a glimpse into the professional dance world and sustainable careers in the arts, the Group Study program offers technical training and addresses pressing issues in the field.

Group Study offers groups of dancers the opportunity to select a series of online or in-person classes tailor-made to fit the needs and aspirations of their dancers or programs.

GIBNEY COMPANY TOURING
Gibney Company is available for national and international touring opportunities including performances, community action residencies, and teaching engagements. Gibney Company is also available to lead digital workshops, classes, and discussion series.

Contact Global Touring Representative Barbara Frum, Sharing Spaces LTD, for all booking inquiries:

Email: barbara@sharingspacesproductions.com
Tel.: +1 416-727-0725

Learn More about our Bard College Dance Program Partnership

PARTNERSHIPS
Both acknowledging and pushing against the often transactional nature of university residency exchanges with non-profits, Gibney creates multi-year partnerships with academic institutions dovetailing together our individual resources, expertise and lived experiences in hopes of offering more comprehensive interplay between students, faculty, and university audiences with our Director of Engagement Amy Miller alongside the Gibney Company Leadership and Artistic Associates.

To inquire about university partnerships with Gibney, please contact Director of Engagement, Amy Miller, at amy@gibneydance.org

Moving Toward Justice

MTJ CURRICULUM
Gibney’s Moving Toward Justice (MTJ) Curriculum cultivates spaces for ‘artist entrepreneurs’ to build skills and foster dialogue and exchange at the intersection of arts and social justice. Geared toward artists, educators, administrators and activists alike this discussion-based curriculum centers somatic awareness and makes space for the exploration of the ‘new choreographies’ at play in social and interpersonal justice, all while expanding the definition of ‘community’ to include those right around us. Sessions could include sharing Gibney’s time-tested Model and Methods; self-management best practices; skill-building toward facilitation techniques, program development, persuasive writing, business practices in entrepreneurship; as well as the personal stories of Gibney Company’s Artistic Associates embarking on their fellowship projects addressing gaps in the dance field.

Sessions build awareness about a myriad of social justice issues and are rooted in Gibney Community’s long history in addressing gender-based violence alongside survivors and social workers. This curriculum is inspired by Gibney’s organizational-wide model valuing reflection, expression, collaboration and sustainability while intentionally progressing from internal ideas to external action, and from individual work to collective care. This four part framework aims to move from the abstract toward the tangible, internal to external, from the individual towards the collective.

MTJ COHORT
Gibney Company’s full-time dancers, known as Artistic Associates, embrace a broad spectrum of activities—in the studio, on stage, within our organization, and throughout the community. Artistic Associates give back to the dance field through individually-crafted Moving Toward Justice Fellowships. Each Artistic Associate pinpoints a pressing issue in the dance field then leverages the resources and mentorship of the larger organization to develop, implement, and co-create new programs in response to the evolving needs of the field.

MTJ RESOURCES
A repository of current and past Moving Toward Justice Fellowships, updates and curriculum sharing. Check back for updates on annual convenings to further cohort relationships and share project developments.

Artist Services

1:1 Consulting with Gibney’s Executive Leadership Team geared for artists, administrators, educators toward career decision-making, curriculum development advice and feedback on facilitation. From emerging artists to executives in the arts, these connections offer customized resource-sharing specific to personal needs, recommendations for further research, and encouragement for co-creating our reimagined arts field – together. These consultations can be reserved on their own or as an extra offering combined with an intensive or other Gibney training experience.

Presenting

IMAGINING DIGITAL FALL 2022

Gibney’s Imagining Digital series—directed and curated by Eva Yaa Asantewaa—provides a forum for the sharing of vital ideas and insightful perspectives through a variety of virtual presentations, discussions, and spoken word performances. The series offers eight online events beginning September 7, as well as the continuation of Imagining: The Gibney Journal, a bimonthly online publication.

Explore the season today and subscribe for the Imagining Digital Bundle to experience all of our fall events! Early Bird ticket pricing is available through August 31.

Additional details about Gibney’s in-person 2022-2023 performance season to be announced soon.

FALL 2022 DIGITAL EVENTS

BROWSE THE CALENDAR

Presenting Programs

Gibney Presents

Gibney’s premier presentation series, offering a rich blend of dance and performance in fully produced, evening-length commissions.

New Voices

A suite of residencies, showings, and performances that support early career dance artists.

Learn more

Living Gallery

Living Gallery, curated by Eva Yaa Asantewaa and normally produced in the Gibney Gallery, presents live performance of storytelling, monologues, spoken word, stand-up, or creative talks. Each performance—free and open to the public—runs 30-45 minutes, traditionally scheduled within the hour before a dance concert presented in Gibney’s Theater. Due to COVID-19, Living Galleries will happen on Zoom for the Fall 2020 season.

For the Moment

For the Moment presents evenings of short, theme-based solo improvisations that celebrate creative response to the changing textures and energies of outer and inner worlds.

Engagement Programs

Art + Action Talks

Art & Action, curated by Eva Yaa Asantewaa, is Gibney’s online talk show for discerning fans of dance, the creative process, and all the ways art plays a vital role in society.

Black Diaspora

A pilot program launched by Eva Yaa Asantewaa, Black Diaspora directly addresses the needs of emerging Black-identifying artists from a variety of cultural backgrounds and dance/performance techniques and traditions. Artists were invited to apply following recommendations from Black artists in New York’s community, and a cohort of twenty artists has formed for the 2020-21 Season.

Cohort Members: Alexander Diaz, Alexandra Jean-Joseph, Angelica Mondol Viaña, Beaudau Karel Banks, BRAT, Bree Breeden, Bria Symoné Bacon, Candace Tabbs, Da’ Von Wesley Doane, Dominique Carryl-St. Louis, Jenny Boissiere, Kendra J. Ross, Maya Simone Z., olaiya olayemi, Oluwadamilare (Dare) Ayorinde, Trinity Dawn Bobo (Trí), Tyrell “Rocka” James, Tyrone Bevans, Surya Swilley, Wendell Gray II.

Deeper Lecture Series

The Deeper Lecture Series is a new talk + Q&A program designed to acquaint Gibney’s community of artists and audiences with the most provocative, influential, and inspiring minds at work in the arts, humanities, and activism.

Sorry I Missed Your Show

A screening and discussion series, Sorry I Missed Your Show highlights dance works from the recent past to explore their relationship to the dance canon and contemporary practice. Due to COVID-19, Sorry I Missed Your Shows will happen on Zoom for the Fall 2020 Season.

Theater Rental

POP: Performance Opportunity Project serves the dance community by providing space, support, and subsidized rates for performances to non-profit companies and individual dance artists.

Residencies

Gibney is proud to offer a number of residency programs, which grant resident artists support, space, and access to Gibney’s resources and artistic ecosystem.

Residency Programs

Artist in Residence

Artist-in-Residence (AiR) is Gibney’s new, three-year program, the first signature program created by Gibney Center Artistic Director Nigel Campbell.

Dance in Process

Dance in Process (DiP) is designed to provide extensive, holistic support for mid-career New York-based dance artists who are in the middle stages of work on a new project.