Gina Gibney Dance Inc

Company: gibney company is our organization's premier commission-based repertory dance company that activates its dancers toward their full artistic, entrepreneurial, and socially minded selves through rigorous physical, intellectual, and interpersonal practices. Since 2015, gibney company members have been full-time salaried employees with benefits. Gibney company commissions work by choreographers who are committed to exploring connections between the rigorous physicality of contemporary dance alongside responsive, humanistic storytelling.

Community action: gibney's growing roster of community initiatives use movement to transform lives and address social justice issues. Among gibney's highly respected programs are: move to move beyond, movement workshops that empower survivors of gender-based violence across local shelters; hands are for holding residencies, which engage new york city school-aged youth on the topics of violence prevention and healthy relationships; and moving toward justice, a cohort-based program that mobilizes artists to respond to social issues.