Bard Dance Program presents
Gibney Work-in-Progress showing of Re | Build | Construct
by Rena Butler
April 21, 2022
Bard Dance Program presents
April 21, 2022
Gibney Company makes their Fisher Center debut for a work-in-progress showing—a culmination of its Spring residency in the LUMA Theater at Bard.
This event marks the second year of the company’s partnership with the Bard College Dance Program. The program includes the most recent work-in-progress—Re | Build | Construct—by Gibney Company Choreographic Associate and celebrated performer, Rena Butler.
Please join us in a Q&A after the performance.
Based in New York City, Gibney Company is a commission-based, repertory company that works with renowned and rising international choreographers representing a broad range of aesthetics and techniques. With the aim of redefining a 21st-century contemporary dance company, the Gibney organization is creating a new model for supportive and sustainable careers for dancers and healthy working relationships for artists and collaborators. The Company, led by Artistic Director Gina Gibney with Director Gilbert T Small II, has already expanded the role of its dancers, known as Artistic Associates, to play a vital role as both artists and activists. Artistic Associates advance the quality of the organization’s artistry through performance and deepen its community engagement through advocacy for issues in the dance field such as diversity, mental health, and economic empowerment.
Founded in 1991, Gibney is a New York City-based performing arts and social justice organization that taps into the vast potential of movement, creativity, and performance to effect social change and personal transformation.
Learn more at gibneydance.org/company.
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LUMA Theater
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