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Highlighted Programs Gibney Dance: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center Exercise Exchange at the Hub 280 Broadway (Enter at 53A Chambers) , NY 10007 Tuesday, November 11, 6:30-8:00pm 280 Broadway Gibney Dance at 280 Broadway is located in Lower Manhattan across from City Hall at the nexus of Tribeca and the Financial An ongoing series providing opportunities for the District. Public transportation, walking, and biking are the fastest community to experience the movement workshop and greenest ways to get to us. We are located off of the following model used by Gibney Dance Company Members subway stations: in their Community Action work. Participants share Brooklyn Bridge - City Hall/Chambers Street - 4, 5, 6, J, Z their own workshop ideas, conduct exercises with City Hall - R the group, and receive informal feedback on their Chambers Street - World Trade Center/Park Place - A, C, 2, 3 Chambers Street - 1, 2, 3 structure and facilitation E 22ND ST Make it Happen: Take your Project from Idea to Success E 21ST ST 6

Hosted by Leeanne M. G-Bowley E 20TH ST Saturdays November 15 & December 13 2:00-4:00pm, 280 Broadway E 19TH ST $17 for both sessions, $10 for drop-ins DoublePlus: E 18TH ST Do you have a great idea for a new artistic work, A Series of Artists Curating Artists E 17 TH ST community program, personal project, or career ad- November 5 - December 20 / Tickets $15-$20 vancing endeavor? This workshop will provide artists FIFTH AVE PARK AVE S with the support and tools they need to make a proj- Gibney Dance: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center L N Q R 4 5 6

UNION SQUARE 280 Broadway (Enter at 53A Chambers) ect happen through real time advice, guidance, and IRVING PLAZA skill building over the course of three workshops. Cutting-edge performances curated by Annie-B Gibney Dance Choreographic Center Parson, RoseAnne Spradlin, Jon Kinzel, Miguel 890 Broadway, 5th Floor Guess Who’s in the Green Room: New York, NY 10003 Gutierrez, Bebe Miller, and Donna Uchizono. A C

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Curated by Annie-B Parson Madeline is interested in helping artists develop the PARK PL 14th Street - Union Square - 4, 5, 6, N, Q, R, L November 5 - 8 / 7:30 pm language and confidence to effectively work with CHURCH AVE BARCLAY ST CITY HALL PARK 23rd Street - N, R PARK ROW A look at the spectacle of black tragedy and survival lighting designers. Sign up for a one-on-one, 23rd Street - 6 BROOKLYN BR 30-minute session to discuss non-technical ways of VESEY ST + a group meditation on love and the Internet. SPRUCE ST Contact Us FRANKFORT ST communicating with collaborators and designers. BROADWAY Daria Faïn + Gillian Walsh Bring your questions! [email protected] BEEKMAN ST 280 Broadway: 646-837-6809ANN ST Curated by RoseAnne Spradlin Amplification & Scale: 890 Broadway: 212-677-8560 November 12 - 15 / 7:30 pm Workshop with Maria Bauman Connect with Us A dance of coded mathematical structures + a solo Tuesday, November 18, 6:30-8:00pm Facebook.com/GibneyDancePage on the cyclical nature of life. 280 Broadway Twitter.com/GibneyDance Instagram.com/GibneyDance Rakiya A. Orange + Alex Rodabaugh What role does physicality have in our organizing and our community engagement? In our leadership? Curated by Miguel Gutierrez What models do we want to co-create with November 19 - 22 / 7:30 pm communities we work in and with? During this A 21st-century Internet angel + a black body experiential workshop, we will explore these ideas questioning constructed identities. with physical and verbal discourse, practice body awareness as a leadership tool, and manipulate our Tickets and full season schedule at kinesthetic timbre through experimentation and GibneyDance.org/DoublePlus or at the Front Desk. play. No dance experience necessary—only clothes you can move in and a sense of curiosity! November 2014

Programs & Events

Date Program Name Event Name Time Location Monday, November 3rd Intro to Web Design with Caleb Custer 6:00 - 8:00 pm 280 Broadway Tuesday, November 4th Guess Who’s in the Collaborative Art-Making & Creating Immersive Dance 11:00 am - 2:00 pm 890 Broadway Green Room Theater with Zach Morris Thursday, November 6th Visioning Workshop with Emily Johnson 12:00 - 2:00 pm 280 Broadway Tuesday, November 11th Exercise Exchange at the Hub 6:30 - 8:00 pm 280 Broadway Tuesday, November 18th Guess Who’s in the Let’s Talk Design with Madeline Best 11:00 am - 2:00 pm 890 Broadway Green Room Tuesday, November 18th One-on-One Consultations with Maria Bauman 12:00 - 2:00 pm 280 Broadway Tuesday, November 18th Amplification & Scale: Workshop with Maria Bauman 6:30 - 8:00 pm 280 Broadway Tuesday, November 18th Show/Share Moderated by Michelle Boulé 6:30 - 8:00 pm 890 Broadway

Performances

November 5 - 8 $15 - $20 DoublePlus: Audrey Hailes + Royal Osiris 7:30 pm 280 Broadway Karaoke Ensemble November 12 - 15 $15 - $20 DoublePlus: Daria Faïn + Gillian Walsh 7:30 pm 280 Broadway November 19 - 22 $15 - $20 DoublePlus: Rakiya A. Orange + Alex Rodabaugh 7:30 pm 280 Broadway

Classes access8: $8 Dance & Yoga Physical Inquiry & Somatic Practices Zena Rommett Floor-Barre® access8: $8 Dance & Yoga are Gibney Dance’s new The Physical Inquiry & Somatic Practices program Zena Rommett Floor-Barre® Technique is designed affordable classes. access8: $8 Dance is offered encompasses a wide range of approaches to lengthen and strengthen the muscles and Monday – Friday from 2 – 4 pm, and access8: $8 that develop one’s understanding of the body improve the alignment of the body. Dancers and Yoga Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9 - 10 am. through experiential studies with roots in various non-dancers can benefit from the rewards of a These classes are meant to encourage students cultures and lines of thought. The series includes Floor-Barre® class. The class guides you through to explore various contemporary dance styles and classes based in Alexander Technique, Contact a set of exercises that help achieve proper pelvic somatic methods, and to provide teachers with a Improvisation, Feldenkrais Method®, Qi Gong, alignment, strengthen the core, and elongate chance to dig deep into their teaching practices. Pilates and more, taught by the internationally muscles. renowned faculty of Movement Research, and is Ballet suitable for students of all backgrounds and levels Taught by multiple experienced teachers, Pro of experience with an interest in deepening their Level Ballet at Gibney Dance Center is offered relationship to an embodied practice. exclusively at our 890 Broadway location. It is aimed The Playground SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR SUPPORTERS at professional dancers but is also suitable for any advanced-level dancer. The class provides a strong The Playground allows dancers to experience Foundation Support basis in classical technique for the ballet dancer various choreographic styles and ideas, engage The Agnes Varis Trust, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Arnhold Foundation, and contemporary dancer alike. with a new community of dancers, and gather Booth Ferris Foundation, Bossak/Heilbron Charitable Foundation, Dextra Baldwin McGonagle Foundation, Engaging Dance Audiences administered by Dance/ resourceful information and inspiration from USA and made possible with generous funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Contemporary Forms the array of choreographers involved. In turn, Foundation, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Eileen Fisher, Emma A. Sheafer Charitable Trust, The Gramercy Park Foundation, The Harkness Foundation for Contemporary Forms is Gibney Dance’s signature established choreographers are paid for their Dance, The Hyde and Watson Foundation, Jerome Robbins Foundation, Jewish Communal Fund, Joseph & Joan Cullman Foundation for the Arts, Macy’s, Mertz series of contemporary dance classes. Featuring creative investigations, are given free space to explore new movement with professional dancers, Gilmore Foundation, Morgan Stanley, New Music USA: Creative Connections, professional-level drop-in classes with renowned The New York Community Trust – Lila Acheson Wallace Theater Fund, The New teachers from across the field of dance, these and are provided with the opportunity to establish York Community Trust – LuEsther T. Mertz Advised Fund, NYC Dance Response relationships with new dancers and fellow Fund, a program of Dance/NYC established by the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, classes boast teachers from companies and New York University Community Fund, O’Donnell-Green Music and Dance lineages representing a wide spectrum of genres choreographers. Foundation, and The Patrina Foundation. Gibney Dance receives additional support through the matching gift programs of Macy’s, The Moody’s Foundation, including Modern, Post Modern, Dance Theatre, Morgan Stanley and The Open Society Foundations. Gibney Dance has received Simonson Technique Contemporary and other dance traditions. gracious encouragement from Eliot Feld’s Ballet Tech. Taught by teachers trained in the Simonson Corporate Support Gaga Technique, these classes emphasize contemporary American Australian Association, Bloomingdale’s, Credit Suisse, EILEEN FISHER, Gaga is a new way of gaining knowledge and self- dance, modern dance, or jazz, but all offer a safe Estée Lauder Companies, Goldman Sachs, Kennedy Berg LLP, Kirkland & Ellis warm-up based on anatomical alignment and then LLP, Macy’s Merchandising Group, Morgan Stanley, Polisan Home Cosmetics, awareness through your body. Gaga provides a and Wyndham Worldwide Corporation, and Yentus & Booher. framework for discovering and strengthening the transition into sequences choreographed by each body and adding flexibility, stamina, and agility individual teacher. Government Support while lightening the senses and imagination. The Gibney Dance has received generous support from the Trisha Brown Dance Company Department of Cultural Affairs, Materials for the Arts, the New York State Council work improves instinctive movement and connects on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State conscious and unconscious movement, and it Core principles of Trisha’s work—whether aesthetic, Legislature; and the National Endowment for the Arts. allows for an experience of freedom and pleasure compositional, or kinetic—are taught via the creative in a simple way, in a pleasant space, in comfortable and physical practices of past and current company Photo Credits clothes, accompanied by music, each person with members. Each teacher offers a unique focus Audrey Hailes photo by Maddy Talias himself and others. and range of personal experience related to their ROKE photo by Maria Baranova understanding of Trisha’s choreographic sensibility, Abby Zbikowski photo by Nick Fancher with the goal of empowering students in their artistic pursuits.

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