December 2014 E 22ND ST Gibney Dance has an exciting month ahead as we embark on the last three weeks of E 21ST ST 6 DoublePlus, our first performance series at 280 Broadway! 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 andE 17our TH STChoreographic Center at 890 Broadway, we offer a robust roster of events designed to meet FIFTH AVE the needs of the dance field by fosteringPARK AVE Sthe creative process, 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 SPRUCE ST FRANKFORT ST BROADWAY BEEKMAN ST Gibney Dance at 280 Broadway Grand Opening ANN ST Highlighted Programs Gibney Dance: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center 280 Broadway (Entrance at 53A Chambers) Sorry I Missed Your Show New York, NY 10007 EYE ON DANCE: Dance in Israel Gibney Dance at 280 Broadway is located in Lower Manhattan Wednesday, December 3 / 6:30-8:00pm across from City Hall at the nexus of Tribeca and the Financial District. Public transportation, walking, and biking are the fastest 890 Broadway and greenest ways to get to us. We are located off of the following Produced in 1991, this EYE ON DANCE episode subway stations: covers the rise of a dance company in a land of Brooklyn Bridge - City Hall/Chambers Street 4, 5, 6, J, Z constant upheaval. Celia Ipiotis invites Jeannette City Hall R Ordman to describe the path forged by artists to es- Chambers Street - World Trade Center/Park Place A, C, 2, 3 Chambers Street 1, 2, 3 tablish contemporary dance in Israel. Post-screening discussion with Ze’eva Cohen and Dana Katz. E 22ND ST 6 Exercise Exchange at the Hub E 21ST ST Tuesday, December 9 / 6:30-8:00pm E 20TH ST Community Action Hub / 280 Broadway E 19TH ST An opportunity for teachers and teaching artists to DoublePlus: swap workshop ideas with each other. Participants E 18TH ST A Series of Artists Curating Artists share their own workshop ideas, conduct exercises with the group, and receive informal feedback on E 17 TH ST November 5 - December 20 / Tickets $15-$20 FIFTH AVE their structure and facilitation. PARK AVE S Gibney Dance: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center Limited to 5 participants. L N Q R 4 5 6 280 Broadway (Enter at 53A Chambers) UNION SQUARE IRVING PLAZA Cutting-edge performances curated by Annie-B Make it Happen: Gibney Dance Choreographic Center Parson, RoseAnne Spradlin, Jon Kinzel, Miguel Take your Project from Idea to Success 890 Broadway, 5th Floor Gutierrez, Bebe Miller, and Donna Uchizono. New York, NY 10003 Hosted by Leeanne M. G-Bowley A C Tickets at GibneyDance.org/DoublePlus FOLEY SQ Saturday, December 13 / 2:00-4:00pm / $10 Gibney Dance at 890WARREN Broadway ST is located in READEFlatiron ST close to Learning & Leadership Studio / 280 Broadway Union Square. Public transportation, walking, and bikingJ areZ 4 the5 6 CHAMBERS ST Alex Escalante + Molly Poerstel fastest and greenestMURRAY ST ways to get to us. We are located off of the Do you have a great idea for a new artistic work, following2 3 subway stations:R Curated by Donna Uchizono community program, personal project, or career PARK PL 14th Street - Union Square - 4, 5, 6, N, Q, R, L December 3 - 6 / 7:30 pm advancing endeavor? This workshop will provide CHURCH AVE BARCLAY ST CITY HALL PARK artists with the support and tools they need to 23rd Street - N,R PARK ROW A traditional Mexican deer dance as metaphor + a 23rd Street - 6 make a project happen through real time advice, BROOKLYN BR polyrhythmic score banishing superficiality. VESEY ST SPRUCE ST guidance, and skill building. FRANKFORT ST Contact UsBROADWAY BEEKMAN ST Anna Azrieli + Stuart Shugg [email protected] Workshop with David Leventhal at the Hub 280 Broadway: 646-837-6809ANN ST Curated by Jon Kinzel 890 Broadway: 212-677-8560 December 10 - 13 / 7:30 pm Monday, December 15 / 6:30-8:00pm A revelation on being average + a cinematic Community Action Hub / 280 Broadway Connect with Us approach to the dancing body. What role can dance have in the lives of people Facebook.com/GibneyDancePage with health challenges, particularly those with a Twitter.com/GibneyDance Instagram.com/GibneyDance Maree ReMalia + Abby Zbikowski movement disorder? David Leventhal, Program Youtube.com/GibneyDance280 Director for the Mark Morris Dance Group’s Curated by Bebe Miller internationally-acclaimed Dance for PD® program, December 17 - 20 / 7:30 pm will explore the program’s originals and objectives, A self-discovery full of contradictions + a revealing lessons learned and best practices that are spontaneous composition of bodies in flux. applicable to anyone working in the areas of dance, community engagement and health. Tickets and full season schedule at GibneyDance.org/DoublePlus or at the Front Desk. December 2014 Programs & Events Date Program Name Event Name Time Location Wednesday, December 3rd Sorry I Missed Your EYE ON DANCE: Dance in Israel 6:30 - 8:00 pm 890 Broadway Show Tuesday, December 9th Exercise Exchange at 6:30 - 8:00 pm 280 Broadway the Hub Saturday, December 13th Make it Happen: Workshop with Leeanne M. G-Bowley 2:00 - 4:00 pm 280 Broadway Monday, December 15th Workshop with David Leventhal at the Hub 6:30 - 8:00 pm 280 Broadway Monday, December 22nd One-on-One Consultations with David Leventhal 3:00 - 5:00 pm 280 Broadway Consultations at the Hub Performances December 3 - 6 $15 - $20 DoublePlus: Alex Escalante + Molly Poerstel 7:30 pm 280 Broadway December 10 - 13 $15 - $20 DoublePlus: Anna Azrieli + Stuart Shugg 7:30 pm 280 Broadway December 17 - 20 $15 - $20 DoublePlus: Maree ReMalia + Abby Zbikowski 7:30 pm 280 Broadway Classes access8: $8 Dance & Yoga Physical Inquiry & Somatic Practices with the goal of empowering students in their artistic pursuits. access8: $8 Dance & Yoga are Gibney Dance’s new The Physical Inquiry & Somatic Practices program affordable classes. access8: $8 dance is offered encompasses a wide range of approaches Zena Rommett Floor-Barre® Monday – Friday from 2 – 4 pm, and access8: $8 that develop one’s understanding of the body yoga Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9 - 10 am. through experiential studies with roots in various Zena Rommett Floor-Barre® Technique is designed These classes are meant to encourage students to cultures and lines of thought. The series includes to lengthen and strengthen the muscles and explore various contemporary dance styles and to classes based in Alexander Technique, Contact improve the alignment of the body. Dancers and provide teachers with a chance to dig deep into their Improvisation, Feldenkrais Method®, Qi Gong, non-dancers can benefit from the rewards of a teaching practices. Pilates and more, taught by the internationally Floor-Barre® class. The class guides you through renowned faculty of Movement Research, and is a set of exercises that help achieve proper pelvic Ballet suitable for students of all backgrounds and levels alignment, strengthen the core, and elongate muscles. 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 at professional dancers but is also suitable for any advanced-level dancer. The class provides a strong The Playground allows dancers to experience basis in classical technique for the ballet dancer various choreographic styles and ideas, engage and contemporary dancer alike. with a new community of dancers, and gather resourceful information and inspiration from Contemporary Forms the array of choreographers involved. In turn, SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR SUPPORTERS established choreographers are paid for their Contemporary Forms is Gibney Dance’s signature Foundation Support creative investigations, are given free space to series of contemporary dance classes. Featuring The Agnes Varis Trust, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Arnhold Foundation, professional-level drop-in classes with renowned explore new movement with professional dancers, Booth Ferris Foundation, Bossak/Heilbron Charitable Foundation, Dextra Baldwin and are provided with the opportunity to establish McGonagle Foundation, Engaging Dance Audiences administered by Dance/ teachers from across the field of dance, these USA and made possible with generous funding from the Doris Duke Charitable classes boast teachers from companies and relationships with new dancers and fellow Foundation, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Eileen Fisher, Emma A. Sheafer choreographers. Charitable Trust, The Gramercy Park Foundation, The Harkness Foundation for lineages representing a wide spectrum of genres Dance, The Hyde and Watson Foundation, Jerome Robbins Foundation, Jewish including Modern, Post Modern, Dance Theatre, Communal Fund, Joseph & Joan Cullman Foundation for the Arts, Macy’s, Mertz Simonson Technique Gilmore Foundation, Morgan Stanley, New Music USA: Creative Connections, Contemporary and other dance traditions. The New York Community Trust – Lila Acheson Wallace Theater Fund, The New Taught by teachers trained in the Simonson York Community Trust – LuEsther T. Mertz Advised Fund, NYC Dance Response Fund, a program of Dance/NYC established by the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Gaga Technique, these classes emphasize contemporary New York University Community Fund, O’Donnell-Green Music and Dance Gaga is a new way of gaining knowledge and self- dance, modern dance, or jazz, but all offer a safe Foundation, and The Patrina Foundation. Gibney Dance receives additional warm based on anatomical alignment and then support through the matching gift programs of Macy’s, The Moody’s Foundation, awareness through your body.