About the Company
Overview
Presenting a broad range of aesthetics and techniques, Gibney Company has an unrelenting focus on artistic excellence and social integrity.
Led by Artistic Director Gina Gibney and Director Gilbert T. Small II, Gibney Company commissions and performs works by rising and renowned choreographers from around the world who are committed to exploring connections between the rigorous, often superhuman physicality of contemporary dance and responsive, humanistic storytelling.
Since its expansion in 2020, the Company has commissioned works from a wide range of choreographers. Gibney Company has been invited to perform nationally and internationally at prestigious venues and festivals including The Joyce Theater, New York City Center’s Fall for Dance, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Bryant Park Dance Festival, Holland Dance Festival, Fall for Dance North, TITAS/DANCE UNBOUND, Global Arts Live, Dance Victoria, Chautauqua Institution, DANCE Cleveland, USC Visions and Voices, The Purchase PAC, Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, White Bird, Guild Hall, Fire Island Dance Festival, Festival des Arts de Saint-Sauveur, Bryant Park Dance Festival, and New Victory Dances, among others.
History and Values
Gibney Company’s model for a 21st century dance company supports sustainable careers for dancers and healthy working relationships for artists and collaborators.
Gibney’s story began in 1991, when choreographer Gina Gibney founded her socially active dance company with a single dance studio to call home at 890 Broadway. Almost three decades later, throughout the organization’s many expansions, Gibney’s acclaimed resident dance ensemble, Gibney Company, remains at the core of its work. Gibney Company grew alongside and within the Gibney organization as it became home to thousands of artists and community members across two New York City locations, totaling 23 studios, 5 performance spaces, and 52,000 square feet of space. Within a few years of Gibney acquiring its second location, 280 Broadway, in 2014, Gina Gibney expanded the Company’s directorial team.
Following its 25th anniversary in 2016, the organization re-envisioned Gibney Company in an intentional effort to empower its dancers as both artists and activists. Now known as Artistic Associates, Gibney Company members advance the quality of the organization’s artistry through impeccable performance and deepen its community engagement through dynamic change and advocacy for issues in the dance field such as diversity, mental health, and economic empowerment. Gibney Company Artistic Associates receive 52-week contracts, health insurance, on-site physical therapy, an annual artistic sabbatical, and paid vacation. As Artistic Associates’ roles became more robust, the Company also began commissioning repertory. In the spirit of its namesake leader’s artistic sensibility, Gibney Company embarks on relationships with artists who are committed to exploring connections between the rigorous physicality of contemporary dance and responsive, humanistic storytelling.
In January 2020, the Company announced a transformative gift from Andrew A. Davis and the Shelby Cullom Davis Charitable Fund. With new possibilities for commissioning original works, Gibney Company has retained its longstanding spirit of experimentation while taking a leading role in shaping a more robust landscape for contemporary dance in New York and beyond.
Meet the Company Team
Gina Gibney
Founder, Artistic Director, & CEO
Gilbert T. Small II
Gibney Company Director
Bridget Caston
Director of Company Operations
Simone Gelety
Artistic Projects Manager
Joan Dwiartanto
Artistic Associate
Graham Feeny
Artistic Associate
Amari Frazier
Artistic Associate
Andrew McShea
Artistic Associate
Lounes Landri
Artistic Associate
Madi Tanguay
Artistic Associate
Madison Goodman
Artistic Associate
Tiare Keeno
Artistic Associate
Zack Sommer
Artistic Associate
Collaborators
Gibney Company is a contemporary repertory company that commissions work from both internationally-renowned and rising choreographers who are committed to exploring connections between the rigorous, often superhuman physicality of contemporary dance and responsive, humanistic storytelling.
Commissioned Artists since 2021
Roy Assaf, Rena Butler, Lucinda Childs, Peter Chu, William Forsythe, Johan Inger, Emilie Leriche, Mthuthuzeli November, Alan Lucien Øyen, Gustavo Ramirez Sansano, Jermaine Spivey & Spenser Theberge, Sonya Tayeh, Tiffany Tregarthen & David Raymond, and Yue Yin.
Repertory Artists Since 2021
Lucinda Childs, Sharon Eyal, Johan Inger, Ohad Naharin and Twyla Tharp.
Company Support
Gibney Company is proud to receive major institutional support from Andrew A. Davis and the Shelby Cullom Davis Charitable Fund, Richard Feldman and The SHS Foundation, the Howard Gilman Foundation, Joan & Jerry Lozinski, and Pamela van Zandt.
Gibney Company’s work is also generously funded by the Albertine Foundation and Villa Albertine, the Arnhold Foundation, the Ballet Support Foundation, the Bossak/Heilbron Charitable Foundation, the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, the Harkness Foundation for Dance, the Marta Heflin Foundation, the Huang-Sommer Charitable Fund, the Lincoln Financial Foundation, the MacMillan Family Foundation, Mid Atlantic Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, the Omomuki Foundation, the James E. Robison Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, and the Simons Foundation.
As of August 13, 2026.