Move to Move Beyond Storytellers

Overview

The Move to Move Beyond Storytellers offer performances that promote advocacy, connection, and awareness.

Gibney’s history with the Storytellers, a group of advocates and creators who have experienced gender-based violence, dates back to 2005. Through the Survivor Leadership program at our first partner organization, Sanctuary for Families, we connected with those who felt drawn to the power of expression and creation that movement offers. This planted the seeds for the Move to Move Beyond Storytellers. In 2019, the program was formalized and expanded thanks to support from Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund.

Performance

Repertory

The Storytellers have a growing repertory of original dance works collaboratively created over the past two decades.

Celebration Piece (2005)
Reflections (2008)
Here to Tell (2010)
Point of Change (2016)
Echoes of Truth (2017)
Transformation of Powerful Souls (2019)
Works in Progress at Power in Motion (2020)
Seeds of Hope (2020)

Performance Partners

The Storytellers’ performances create a supportive space for audiences and performers alike to deepen their critical consciousness, to witness the power of reclaiming one’s agency, and to move toward shared liberation. Storytelling and witnessing are central components of social change work, offering a mode of “truth-telling” centered on the transformative lived experiences of individuals. Witnessing these stories illuminates our collective capacity for positive change. The Storytellers have offered performances in collaboration with the below partners:

Arts in Health Convening
Collect Pond Park
Denim Day
Kings County Hospital
Lenox Hill Neighborhood House
Mayor’s Office to End Domestic and Gender-Based Violence
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library

Book a Performance

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