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June-July 2015 June-July 2015 E 22ND ST We’re excited to kick off the summer with performances by Anna Sperber and Mallory Catlett, a 6 financial literacy workshop with Goldman Sachs’ Community TeamWorks program, and more! E 21ST ST E 20TH ST E 19TH ST Welcome To Gibney Dance Gibney Dance’s mission is to bringE 18TH the ST possibility of movement where it would otherwise not exist. At our Performing Arts Center at 280 Broadway and our Choreographic Center at 890 E 17 TH ST Broadway, we offer a robust roster of events designed to meet the needsFIFTH AVE of the dance field by fostering the creative process, PARK AVE S encouraging dialogue, and providing professional development opportunities. L N Q R 4 5 6 UNION SQUARE IRVING PLAZA Visit Us A C FOLEY SQ WARREN ST READE ST J Z 4 5 6 CHAMBERS ST MURRAY ST 2 3 R PARK PL CHURCH AVE CITY HALL PARK BARCLAY ST PARK ROW BROOKLYN BR VESEY ST Gibney Dance at 280 Broadway Grand Opening SPRUCE ST FRANKFORT ST BROADWAY BEEKMAN ST Photo by Ian Douglas ANN ST Gibney Dance: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center 280 Broadway (Entrance at 53A Chambers) Making Space Upcoming Events New York, NY 10007 Gibney Dance at 280 Broadway is located in Lower Manhattan February - June, 2015 / Tickets $15 - $20 Columbus Park Ribbon Cutting Ceremony across from City Hall at the nexus of Tribeca and the Financial Gibney Dance: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center District. Public transportation, walking, and biking are the fastest Saturday, June 6 / 11:00 am - 1:00 pm 280 Broadway (Enter at 53A Chambers) and greenest ways to get to us. We are located off of the following Columbus Park subway stations: Over fourteen weeks we will present the work of Join us in celebrating the newly restored playground Brooklyn Bridge - City Hall/Chambers Street - 4, 5, 6, J, Z twenty-two provocative and groundbreaking dance, at Columbus Park, just a few blocks from 280 City Hall - R theater, and multimedia artists who are pushing the Broadway! Associate Artistic Director Amy Miller will Chambers Street - World Trade Center/Park Place - A, C, 2, 3 limits of performance in New York City. perform a solo from Gina Gibney’s Always, set to the Chambers Street - 1, 2, 3 music of Patsy Cline, and offer a brief movement E 22ND ST Tickets at GibneyDance.org/MakingSpace workshop for all children in attendance. E 21ST ST 6 Anna Sperber Exercise Exchange at the Hub Ruptured Horizon E 20TH ST Monday, June 15 / 6:30 - 8:00 pm Wednesday, June 3 - Saturday, June 6 / 7:30 pm 280 Broadway E 19TH ST Wednesday, June 10 - Saturday, June 13 / 7:30 pm An exchange of best practices is encouraged E 18TH ST as participants share workshop ideas, conduct Mallory Catlett exercises with the group, and receive informal E 17 TH ST Decoder 2017 feedback on their structure and facilitation. FIFTH AVE PARK AVE S Wednesday, June 24 - Saturday, June 27 / 7:30 pm ShowDown L N Q R 4 5 6 UNION SQUARE IRVING PLAZA Sunday, June 21 / 5:30 - 7:00 pm dance-mobile 280 Broadway Gibney Dance Choreographic Center 890 Broadway, 5th Floor ShowDown is a performance and feedback series July 2015 / Free New York,A C NY 10003 FOLEY SQ for works-in-progress on the third Sunday of every WARREN ST Brooklyn Bridge Park & Foley Square READE ST month. Upcoming performances by Jessica Ames, Gibney Dance at 890 Broadway is located in Flatiron closeJ Z to4 5 6 CHAMBERS ST Gibney Dance goes outside for the month of July! Janet Aisawa, and Gisela Quinteros. Discussion Union Square.MURRAY Public ST transportation, walking, and biking are the Join us for dance-mobile, an ongoing series of free fastest2 3 and greenest waysR to get to us. We are located off of the facilitated by Nia Love. following subway stations: outdoor performances, classes, and talks in parks PARK PL CHURCH AVE CITY HALL PARK throughout the city. 14th StreetBARCLAY - ST Union Square - 4, 5, 6, N, Q, R, L Financial Literacy Workshop with PARK ROW Goldman Sachs Community Teamworks 23rd Street - N, R 23rd Street - 6 BROOKLYN BR VESEY ST Gibney Dance Company SPRUCE ST FRANKFORT ST Saturday, June 27 BROADWAY Contact Us BEEKMAN ST Still and Still Moving 10:00 am - 1:00 pm or 2:00 - 5:00 pm ANN ST Friday, July 10 / 5:00 pm 280 Broadway [email protected] Foley Square 280 Broadway: 646-837-6809 Join us for the pilot workshop of the Dancers’ 890 Broadway: 212-677-8560 Saturday, July 11 / 7:00 pm Economic Empowerment Program (DEEP)! Brooklyn Bridge Park / Pier 1 Participants will have the opportunity to ask Connect with Us questions on all things finance: how to manage Facebook.com/GibneyDancePage Twitter.com/GibneyDance Class in the Grass with Danté Brown cash flow, how to create projections for long-term Instagram.com/GibneyDance Saturday, July 18 / 7:00 pm projects, how to prioritize expenses, and everything Brooklyn Bridge Park / Pier 1 in between. RSVP at GibneyDance.org/Calendar Heidi Latsky Dance SOMEWHERE Saturday, July 25 / 7:00 pm Brooklyn Bridge Park / Pier 1 June-July 2015 Programs & Events Date Event Time Location Saturday, June 6 Columbus Park Ribbon Cutting Ceremony 11:00 am - 1:00 pm Columbus Park Monday, June 15 Exercise Exchange at the Hub 6:30 - 8:00 pm 280 Broadway Sunday, June 21 ShowDown 5:30 - 7:00 pm 280 Broadway Saturday, June 27 Financial Literacy Workshop 10:00 am - 1:00 pm 280 Broadway 2:00 - 5:00 pm Saturday, July 18 Class in the Grass with Danté Brown 7:00 pm Brooklyn Bridge Park Performances June 3 - 6 $15 - $20 Anna Sperber: Ruptured Horizon 7:30 pm 280 Broadway June 10 - 13 June 24 - 27 $15 - $20 Mallory Catlett: Decoder 2017 7:30 pm 280 Broadway Friday, July 10 Free Gibney Dance Company: Still and Still Moving 5:00 pm Foley Square Saturday, July 11 Free Gibney Dance Company: Still and Still Moving 7:00 pm Brooklyn Bridge Park Saturday, July 25 Free Heidi Latsky Dance: SOMEWHERE 7:00 pm Brooklyn Bridge Park Classes ballet PM Trisha Brown Dance Company Gaga This is an introductory-level technique class which Core principles of Trisha’s work—whether aesthetic, Gaga is a new way of gaining self-awareness. uses ballet to research the functional mechanics of compositional, or kinetic—are taught via the creative Gaga promotes discovery and strengthening of the human instrument. Here we do not explore the and physical practices of past and current company the body by adding flexibility, stamina, and agility body as a photograph or holiday ornament, but as a members. Each teacher offers a unique focus while lightening the senses and imagination. The highly intelligent and ageless self. and range of personal experience related to their work improves instinctive movement and connects understanding of Trisha’s choreographic sensibility, conscious and unconscious movement, and it Ballet with the goal of empowering students in their artistic allows for an experience of freedom and pleasure Taught by multiple experienced teachers, Pro pursuits. in a simple way, in a pleasant space, in comfortable Level Ballet at Gibney Dance Center is offered clothes, accompanied by music, each person with access8: $8 Dance exclusively at our 890 Broadway location. It is aimed himself and others. at professional dancers but is also suitable for any access8: $8 Dance are affordable classes offered advanced-level dancer. The class provides a strong Monday – Friday from 2 – 4 pm. These classes are basis in classical technique for the ballet dancer meant to encourage students to explore various and contemporary dancer alike. contemporary dance styles and to provide teachers SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR SUPPORTERS with a chance to dig deep into their teaching Contemporary Forms practices. Foundation Support Contemporary Forms is Gibney Dance’s signature The Agnes Varis Trust, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Arnhold Foundation, Booth Ferris Foundation, Bossak/Heilbron Charitable Foundation, The David series of contemporary dance classes. Featuring Physical Inquiry & Somatic Practices Rockefeller Fund, Dextra Baldwin McGonagle Foundation, Engaging Dance professional-level drop-in classes with renowned Audiences administered by Dance/USA and made possible with generous The Physical Inquiry & Somatic Practices program funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Doris Duke Charitable teachers from across the field of dance, these Foundation, Emma A. Sheafer Charitable Trust, The Gramercy Park Foundation, classes boast teachers from companies and encompasses a wide range of approaches The Harkness Foundation for Dance, The Howard Gilman Foundation, The that develop one’s understanding of the body Hyde and Watson Foundation, Jerome Robbins Foundation, Jewish Communal lineages representing a wide spectrum of genres Fund, Joseph & Joan Cullman Foundation for the Arts, Macy’s, Mertz Gilmore including Modern, Post Modern, Dance Theatre, through experiential studies with roots in various Foundation, Morgan Stanley, New Music USA: Creative Connections, The New Contemporary and other dance traditions. cultures and lines of thought. The series includes York Community Trust – Lila Acheson Wallace Theater Fund, The New York Community Trust – LuEsther T. Mertz Advised Fund, NYC Dance Response classes based in Alexander Technique, Contact Fund, a program of Dance/NYC established by the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Simonson Technique Improvisation, Feldenkrais Method®, Qi Gong, New York University Community Fund, O’Donnell-Green Music and Dance Pilates and more, taught by the internationally Foundation, and The Patrina Foundation. Gibney Dance receives additional Taught by teachers trained in the Simonson support through the matching gift programs of Macy’s, The Moody’s Foundation, renowned faculty of Movement Research, and is Morgan Stanley and The Open Society Foundations.
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