Rehearsal Rentals
Non-Profit Dance Rehearsals
Non-profit dance rehearsal (NPDR) rental rates apply to simple rehearsal rentals for individual artists or non-profit performing arts organizations.
- NPDR rehearsals can be booked online through Gibney’s rental portal up to four weeks in advance.
- NPDR rehearsal rental rates range by studio between $10.00 – $45.00 per hour.
- Studios are available at 890 Broadway (Union Square) and 280 Broadway (Lower Manhattan) in a variety of sizes.
- See our Specialty and Event Rentals page for information on renting our studios to hold classes and workshops, private lessons, performances, photo and video shoots, production lockouts, and other special events.
- Please contact rentals@gibneydance.org with additional questions.
Access Specialty Rates
NPDR rentals are eligible for the following specialty rates:
- Early-bird Special: Half-price rentals in all studios for rentals beginning between 8am-10am from Monday-Friday offered.
- 24 Hour Special: Half-price rentals in all studios for rentals requested 24 hours or less in advance of the rental start time.
- Discounted rentals are non-refundable in the case of cancellation.
Access Subsidized Space
Gibney offers $10/hr subsidized rates to non-profit and independent dance artists for non-profit dance rehearsal (NPDR) rentals.
The subsidized hours are allocated on a monthly basis. Distribution of the hours is on a first-come, first-served basis beginning on the 1st of each month. Once all hours have been allotted for a given month, the subsidy opportunity will pause, and it will resume when the following month’s calendar opens. Each artist is limited to a total of 14 hours of subsidized space per calendar year. This enables us to extend the subsidized rates to as many artists as possible.
All artists are welcome to request the subsidized hours. We encourage diverse artists to take advantage of this opportunity, including, but not limited to, those who identify with any of the following:
- Small-budget dancemakers (with annual expense budgets less than $500,000) who have a financial need for subsidies and those who may operate outside the non-profit business model.
- ALAANA (African, Latino/a/x, Asian, Arab, Native American) dancemakers, disabled dancemakers, immigrant dancemakers, women-identifying, gender nonconforming/nonbinary/genderqueer, transgender, LGBTQIA+ dancemakers, and/or dancemakers who represent a diversity of dancemaking perspectives, including percussive dance forms.
To book subsidized rehearsal space, please create or login to your Gibney rental account and complete the Non-Profit Dance Rehearsal Request form.
*Please note that requesting subsidized rates in your Rehearsal Request form does not guarantee that your rental will be approved at the subsidized rate. Subsidized rate requests are approved on a first-come, first-served basis in the order they are submitted.
Rehearsal Space Subsidy Program Support
Gibney’s Rehearsal Space Subsidy program is made possible by Dance/NYC and the Mellon Foundation, New York Community Trust, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.