Gibney Dance travels all over the world to bring its time-tested Community Action program model to local organizations everywhere, bringing powerful mechanisms for extending their impact in their own communities and connecting with individuals and populations they would not typically reach.
Photo by Anja Hitzenberger © Gina Gibney Dance, Inc.
Community Action Residencies seamlessly blend artistry and outreach. By combining performance engagements with opportunities to learn about our program model, residencies provide local organizations with powerful tools for impacting their local community. Community Action works hand-in-hand with presenters and organizations to design a program that will be effective and compelling.
PERFORMANCE COMPONENT
Gibney Dance offers richly textured choreography performed by a stunning company of dancers. As a reflection of Ms. Gibney’s worldview, the Company is a community of equal parts sharing and cooperation and is based on an ideal of balance, human interaction, and personal reflection. Ms. Giney’s work, praised by The New York Times for its “great intelligence and almost literary sensitivity,” is distinguished by intricately crafted movement episodes with a sense of deep connection and emotional inevitability.
Company components include
- dance master classes
- informal showings
- public performances of Company repertory
COMMUNITY COMPONENT
Gibney Dance is an established leader in using movement and creativity to reach new demographics in local communities. Our extensive experience includes work with domestic violence survivors, youth-at-risk, and people affected by HIV/AIDS. The Community component of our residencies is designed to share our expertise with local dancers, encourage them to use the arts to empower those in need, and help them to forge partnerships with local social service organizations.
Community components include:
- panel discussions
- sample movement workshops
- learning about the issue of the domestic violence
- sensitization training to work with specific populations
- technical assistance in program and partnership development
- lecture-demonstrations for social service organizations and community partners
Since 2007, Community Action Residencies have been offered outside of New York City in association with White Bird Dance and Bradley Angle Shelter in Portland, Oregon; at L’Agora de la Danse, Montreal Danse, and La Dauphinelle in Montreal, Canada; and at Mimar Sinan University in Istanbul, Turkey.
BOOKING A COMMUNITY ACTION RESIDENCY
Gibney Dance shares its vision through moving performances, substantive educational workshops, and transformative social service workshops. Our Community Action Residencies combine all three of these components in a multi- faceted program that teaches our program model and builds new audiences for dance.
For information and booking:
Yasemin Ozumerzifon, Community Action Manager
Gibney Dance 890 Broadway
New York, NY 10003
Email: yasemin@gibneydance.org
Phone: 212 677 8560
