Casey Loomis & Amy Miller
Photo by Samantha Siegel © Gina Gibney Dance, Inc.
1991 Gibney Dance was founded as a performing and social action dance company. Studio 5-2 at 890 Broadway became the Company’s artistic home.
1997 In response to Artistic Director Gina Gibney’s growing concern that women in professional dance were losing artistic and financial ground, the Company was reconceived as an all-female troupe. Over the following ten years, Gibney Dance Company developed seven evening length works that explored the humanity and physicality of women. Today, the Company explores the artistry of both male and female dancers.
2000 Gibney Dance founded the Domestic Violence Project, known today as Community Action. It remains the only dedicated program in the U.S. that uses dance and creativity to help domestic abuse survivors and their families to take back control of their lives.
2008 Gibney Dance was named to the Vanity Fair Hall of Fame for “making art and taking action.”
2010 After a strategic planning process, Gibney Dance Center opened its doors as a greatly expanded, seven-studio facility designed to serve as an artistic home and creative hub for the professional dance field in New York City.
2011 The Center continued to grow and innovate with the introduction of a robust roster of Programs. Our programming now supports hundreds of New York City artists and audience members every year.
2012 With support from Agnes Varis Trust, Community Action reached a landmark in its activities and began offering 365 workshops each year to survivors of domestic violence.
2013 An eighth studio, nicknamed The Red Room, was added to the Center.
