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Gibney Dance, founded in 1991 by choreographer Gina Gibney, is a multi-faceted dance organization occupying two locations in New York City: one at 890 Broadway in the Flatiron District and the other at 280 Broadway in Tribeca. The organization's activities are divided into the following three interrelated fields: Center, Company, and Community. The first, Center, refers to the facility and its programming, which provide rehearsal space to nonprofit and commercial renters in addition to classes, programs, and services to the New York dance community. Company refers to Gibney Dance Company, a professional contemporary dance company operating out of the Center. Finally, Community refers to Community Action, an outreach program uniting dancers with survivors of domestic violence in shelters around New York City. In 2008, Gibney Dance was inducted into Vanity Fairs Hall of Fame for "making art and taking action".
In 2000, Gibney Dance founded the Domestic Violence Project, known today as Community Action. In 2010, the Center reopened as a greatly expanded, seven-studio facility encompassing nearly the entire fifth floor of the 890 Broadway building, whose other tenants include Ballet Tech and the American Ballet Theatre. The following year, Gibney Dance began offering an array of programs designed to serve the professional dance field in New York City. In 2013, with support from The Agnes Varis Trust, Gibney Dance's Community Action reached its goal of offering 500 workshops each year to survivors of domestic violence. Also that year, the organization acquired yet another studio, bringing the facility to eight studios, making it one of the largest of its kind in New York City. In January 2014, at the invitation of the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, Gibney Dance created a strategic plan for the revitalization of 280 Broadway in order to preserve the space for the future of dance. The organization's vision for 280 Broadway is to create a preeminent training program, a tripartite performance complex, and a springboard for social action. The new space operates in tandem with existing programs at 890 Broadway.
Partner Organizations in 280 Broadway's Training Program include the Trisha Brown Dance Company, the New Dance Collective, the Playground, and Movement Research. New facilities at 280 Broadway include a center for professional development called the Learning and Leadership Studio, a hub for the organization's Community Action Program, a white-wall gallery for visual art, and a digital media workroom for artists. 280 Broadway also features three performance spaces and will host its first performance series, DoublePlus, in November and December 2014.
Thrown (2004), made with collaborators Andy Russ (music), Kathy Kaufmann (lighting), and Naoko Nagata (costumes)
Unbounded (2005), made with Ryan Lott (music), Kathy Kaufmann (lighting), Naoko Nagata (costumes), and Anja Hitzenberger (video)
The Distance Between Us (2007), made with collaborators Ryan Lott/Son Lux (music), Kathy Kaufmann (lighting). Naoko Nagata (costumes), and Lex Liang (scenic design)
View Partially Obstructed (2009), made with collaborators Ryan Lott/Son Lux (music), Kathy Kaufmann (lighting), Lex Liang (scenic design and costumes), and superDraw/Joshue Ott (live animation)
Concrete mécanique (2010), made with collaborators Ryan Lott/Son Lux and yMusic Chamber Ensemble (music), Kathy Kaufmann (lighting), and Lex Liang (costumes)
Dividing Line (2013), made with collaborators Ryan Lott/Son Lux and ACME (music), Kathy Kaufmann (lighting), and David C. Woolard (costumes)
Artist Statement:
"In my work, I want to reveal what it is to be human—in the most simple, basic terms. I want to create a choreographic world where strength and tenderness are equally important, where touch and separation are meaningful, and where movement takes on the quality of an intimate conversation. Much of my work is about connection. I want to create work that reminds us that we share a common environment and that our similarities are greater than our differences. As a choreographer, I am an observer. I try to look honestly at how dancers connect to movement and to the complex web of relationships. For example, I look for stillness, for that charged moment of non-movement and what that means to dancers examining their internal motivations and those of each other. I look for gestures that reach and enfold, hold and rebuff, contain and lose. I look for movement that has authenticity and weight. I look for focus that reaches deeply inward, yet is clear and open, with active awareness and a sense of reciprocity."
"With any justice, history will honor Gina Gibney Dance for exquisite, sensitive choreography that mattered in a time when so much cultural product did not" — Eva Yaa Asantewaa, Village Voice, May 8, 2001
"Gina Gibney has established herself as a poet of modern dance today" —Jennifer Dunning, The New York Times, April 21, 1998
"Vanity Fair nominates Gina Gibney Dance, because they not only make art but take action, bringing the wisdom they've acquired as dancers into the lives of women whose minds and bodies house the memory of domestic violence" — Holly Brubach, Vanity Fair, April 2008
"Who better than dancers can help to physically express the inexpressible, which sets itself against words, hidden in the withdrawal of the body and the spirit?" — Frédérique Doyon, Le Devoir, December 3, 2009
"Lower Manhattan's arts scene took a hit when Dance New Amsterdam vacated its TriBeCa home this fall. But a new tenant with equal dance-world credibility on Thursday signed a 20-year lease for the 36,000-square-foot space at 280 Broadway: choreographer Gina Gibney, founder of Gibney Dance." – Pia Catton, The Wall Street Journal, January 9, 2014
"Since 1991, Gibney Dance has grown from being a performing company to including two dance centers and a community action program that serves to give greater visibility to the issue of domestic violence. Most recently, the organization has opened a second location, Gibney 280 (located downtown Manhattan at 280 Broadway) -- the same building that housed former Dance New Amsterdam (DNA)." – Trina Mannino, The Dance Enthusiast, June 18, 2014
"Ms. Gibney is currently one of contemporary dance's most powerful figures in New York. The center of her new influence is 280 Broadway, a two-story building just north of City Hall on which she signed a lease in January. Ms. Gibney now has 17 studios, three theaters, and 51,000 square feet under her control." -Alex Traub, "The New York Observer", July 11, 2014
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