Gibney proudly presents an evening of work by Professional Training Student Nathaniel Phillips! Nathaniel Phillips is a born and raised New Yorker who has lived in Brooklyn most of his life. He has studied at the Alvin Ailey School of Dance and Dancewave in Brooklyn. Nate then continued his training at Gibney's Professional Training Program. At Gibney, Nate learned from Urban Bush Women, Miguel Gutierrez and Bobbi Jene Smith. Nate teaches dance and creative movement at Loco-Motion Dance Theatre. Teaching…

nia love g1(host): lostatsea g1(host): lostatsea grapples with what it means to live within conditions shaped by the “afterlife” of slavery. As a serial, multi-media performance and mobile site of study, I pursue questions regarding my body's status as it pivots on this fundamental query: what remains of the Middle Passage as force, gesture, and affect? Exploring themes of loss, alchemy, geological debris, and generational accretions, I trace a dense, energetic nothingness. Here, “wake work,” as scholar Christina Sharpe asserts,…

SpringboardX presents its annual fall fundraising showing on November 10 featuring work by Ryan Mason, Andrea Miller, and Yin Yue. The showing will be followed by an informal Q&A with the artists, moderated by Troy Ogilvie. Wine will be served (suggested donation: $5). PRICE $60: VIP tickets* $20: General Public $15: Springboard Danse Montréal alumni Free for SpringboardX: rebel instincts participants VIP TICKET DETAILS With your VIP donation, you will receive: a reserved seat for the showing complimentary wine after the showing at the Meet + Mingle…

opening night celebration nov 14, 6:45 - 9:45 pm tickets: $60 - $100 LEARN MORE → PERFORMANCES Nov 15 - 16, 8:00 pm nov 16, 2:00 pm tickets: $20 - 25 GDC’s Fall 2019 season explores what happens when seemingly opposing ideas are invited to co-exist in direct relationship to one another, rather than in isolation. In response to a pervasive ‘either/or’ mentality in our world, how can we move toward embracing a philosophy of ‘both/and’— as people, as artists,…

CURATED BY ALEXIS CONVENTO DoublePlus embraces the artist-as-curator format to present split-bill evenings featuring artists deserving of new or wider visibility, each curated by an established artist. Dana Davenport Untitled Experiments Dana Davenport presents Untitled Experiments, a series of new performative inquiries that utilize video, sculpture and you, the viewer. Through these happenings, Davenport examines themes related to the body, ethnicity, and their interwoven relationship to social mores and institutional structures. Untitled Experiments is a foundation to envisioning both her…

CURATED BY CHARMAINE WARREN DoublePlus embraces the artist-as-curator format to present split-bill evenings featuring artists deserving of new or wider visibility, each curated by an established artist. Alexander Diaz Getting closer to Coral Getting closer to Coral explores memories of being too feminine, not "manly" enough, and being instructed to love the normalized idea of masculinity. Diaz recalls the isolation of his "different," expressive four-year-old self and remembers life as a 26-year-old afraid to wear a dress and make-up in…

CURATED BY TEI BLOW DoublePlus embraces the artist-as-curator format to present split-bill evenings featuring artists deserving of new or wider visibility, each curated by an established artist. Laurel Atwell We Wield We Wield is a trio of women gathering to elevate the self, the group, and the surroundings. Together they pursue altered states via altered understandings of time, space, and rules of engagement in order to begin a expansion beyond the accepted limitations of the body-mind continuum. We Wield is…