GIBNEY COMPANY - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Artist and Administrator
- Chief of Staff, Executive & Board Liaison
- Support
Alaina Wilson is a New York-based dance artist and administrator. She holds a BA in Classics & Art History, having graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Vassar College and holds an MFA in Dance from Sarah Lawrence College, where she focused her studies on phenomenology and perception in relation to choreography and dance performance.
Prior to joining Gibney as Executive & Board Liaison in 2022, Alaina held administrative management positions with NY-based dance organizations BodyStories: Teresa Fellion Dance and Jonah Bokaer Arts Foundation, adding to her experience in executive support, development, company management, and production.
Alaina has performed professionally with choreographers including Natalie Jonas and Grant Jacoby & Dancers, and has produced and performed in her own choreographic work since 2014. She has held artistic residencies with Chez Bushwick and the Catwalk Institute, has received commissions from the Modfest Arts Festival and the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, and has served as a visiting artist in dance with Randolph College. Alaina's additional dance teaching credits include the Bronxville Ballet School and the Ailey School Junior Division.
Alaina continues to cultivate a multi-faceted career within the performing arts and passionately supports dance through all aspects of the field.
Job Titles:
- First Vice Chair
- Member of the Board of Directors
In his Moving Toward Justice Fellowship Revive, Anderson aims to address mental health and mindfulness in the dance community to enable longevity and sustainability in dancers' careers. In a time when artists in the field are struggling and more isolated than ever, Revive welcomes facilitators who have also been professional artists of the dance field to offer practices such as meditation and Ilan Lev Method integrated into institutional daily structures. Anderson also aims to create a yearly retreat model that will provide artists with holistic tools and mindful practices - including Reiki and hypnotherapy - to move through trauma within and outside of the dance community at little or no cost.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Leadership Team
- Senior Director of Education and GibneyPRO
Alexandra Wells is the Senior Director of Education and GibneyPRO, Founder and Artistic Director of Springboard Danse Montréal and the Creator of IMAGE TECH for Dancers™. From 2017 - 2020 served as the Director of Artist Training at Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. Under her direction, Hubbard Street Professional Program (HS Pro) responded to the needs of dancers entering the current job market. By curating relevant methodologies, techniques, and mentors, HS Pro connected emerging artists to leaders in the field who empowered them to become advocates within an evolving landscape.
Alexandra is a mentor to many emerging and established artists in the field. Additionally, she serves on the Artistic Advisory Council for MOVE|NYC|, and is the Artist Curator and an Honorary Board Member of The Legacy Project - celebrating the work of the iconic Canadian artist and choreographer Margie Gillis.
Alexandra was a full-time faculty member and rehearsal director at The Juilliard School for 18 years. She was also the Concept & Artistic Director of the Movement Invention Project from its inception through 2017. She was on faculty at SUNY Purchase College, served as the Interim Director of l'École Supérieure de Danse du Québec, and was the Rehearsal Director for Ballet Hispanico following a long international performance career. As Principal dancer of the Ballet National de Nancy, Ms. Wells toured the world and formed lasting partnerships with the late Rudolf Nureyev and Patrick Dupont.
Job Titles:
- Artist
- Center Rentals Service Associate
Amatullah Smith is an artist based in Brooklyn, NY. She graduated from Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance's Advanced Studies Program in 2019 with a concentration in composition. Since then, she has worked as a freelance dancer in New York City, and in arts administration.
Amelia Atteberry (They/She) is a freelance contemporary dancer based in Brooklyn, New York. Originally from North Carolina, Amelia began their formal dance training in the high school contemporary dance program at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA). After continuing into the college program, they graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2019. While at UNCSA, they performed pieces by Robyn Mineko Williams, Larry Keigwin, Shen Wei and Martha Graham. Amelia has continued their dance training by attending international dance workshops including the One Body, One Career CounterTechnique intensive, the B12 summer dance workshop, the ImPulsTanz international dance festival and the Kyoto International Dance Workshop Festival. Since moving to NYC they have performed works with JKing Dance Company, Dance Visions NY and Catherine Tharin.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Leadership Team
- Director of Learning & Leadership
- Support
Amy Miller is a NYC-based educator, choreographer, administrator and advocate. As Gibney's new Director of Learning and Leadership, she builds on her long dedication to both artistry and social action by facilitating the deepening of reciprocal exchange with educational institutions across the country. Originally from Ohio, her youth as a gymnast evolved into training at The Dance Institute at the University of Akron. She spent a decade at the Ohio Ballet where she performed works by a wide-range of choreographers including José Limon, Lucinda Childs, George Balanchine and Alonzo King. She was a founding member of Cleveland-based GroundWorks DanceTheater where she choreographed numerous works and continues her ongoing connection as artistic advisor. From 2012- 2022, she was a Director and a performing member of Gibney Company performing works by Gina Gibney, Bryan Arias, Peter Chu and Shannon Gillen.
For over a decade, Miller has focused on Gibney's Community Action initiatives and has worked closely with social workers toward facilitating movement workshops with survivors of gender-based violence, conducted both local and international trainings for artists interested in engaging in social action, and facilitated healthy relationship workshops for young people to raise awareness about the role of the arts in violence prevention. Miller also co-facilitates creative spaces for advocacy alongside Gibney's ‘Move to Move Beyond Storytellers,' a group of survivors creating performances for audiences and performers alike to deepen our critical consciousness, witness the power of reclaiming one's agency, and move toward shared liberation.
Actively moving toward co-creating spaces that value antiracism as a foundational tenet, Miller offered three years of dedicated facilitation to Gibney's former Decentering Whiteness Working Group offering white-identifying staff members opportunities to unlearn oppressive structures, and now offers energies to Gibney's Multiracial Staff Group directly addressing reducing harm to and support of our BIPOC staff and greater community.
Miller has facilitated teaching residencies at Bard College, Bates Dance Festival, Brown University, NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, Oberlin College, SUNY Purchase and The National Center for Choreography at The University of Akron among many others. She has conducted Gibney Company international residencies at Mimar Sinan University and Koc University (Istanbul), University of Cape Town (South Africa), DOCH: School of Dance and Circus (Stockholm), MUDA Africa (Tanzania) and Gisenyi, Rwanda. Miller has thrice been a Dance/USA Mentor through their Institute for Leadership Training. Miller was honored to receive an Arts & Artists in Progress "Pay it Forward" Award from Brooklyn Arts Exchange. Miller holds a BFA in Dance and is a recipient of an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award for her choreography.
Miller focuses on Gibney's Community Action initiatives through facilitating movement workshops with survivors of trauma, conducting both local and international trainings for artists interested in engaging in social action and raising awareness about the role of the arts in violence prevention. Committed to performance as advocacy, she also works alongside Gibney's Move to Move Beyond Storytellers. Now advocates after experiencing gender-based violence, the Storytellers activate the stage as a supportive container to reclaim a sense of agency and to move more fiercely in the direction of the shared liberation each one of us deserves.
Job Titles:
- Associate Producer
- Producer
- Program Coordinator
Anastasia Gudkova is an arts producer and program coordinator based in New York. In addition to her work at Gibney, Anastasia is a Producer at MART Foundation, where she has assisted in preparation for various projects in the US and internationally since 2019. Her notable projects are the Off-Broadway production of "Our Class" at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, where Anastasia served as Associate Producer and Company Manager, the re-staging of "Sara" by Sharon Eyal for Gibney Company, and the Company's international tours in Israel and the Netherlands. Anastasia graduated with a B.A. in philosophy from NYU in 2022.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board
- President of Davis Selected Advisers
Andrew A. Davis is the President of Davis Selected Advisers and also manages the Davis Real Estate Mutual Fund as well as several private accounts with a focus on real estate. He has more than 30 years of experience in investment management and securities analysis.
Prior to joining Davis Selected Advisers in 1993, Mr. Davis was Vice President of PaineWebber Incorporated in charge of the closed-end fund and convertible securities research departments.
In addition to serving on the Gibney board, Mr. Davis also currently serves on the boards of the Central Park Conservancy (NY), the United States Ski and Snowboard Foundation (UT), Friends of Acadia (ME), the Holderness School (NH), the Philharmonia Orchestra of London and the Tastevin Foundation (NY). He also serves on the Special Projects Committee of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (NY).
He is the founder of the Davis New Mexico Scholarship, the largest private scholarship fund in the state of New Mexico, which provides four years of tuition, room and board, books, and travel funds to dedicated students who are the first in their families to attend college.
For seven years commencing in 2003, he was appointed by New Mexico's Governor to serve as a member of the New Mexico State Investment Council. In addition, he served as the Chair of the Council's Private Equity Investment Advisory Committee until February 2009 and as a member of the Council's Subcommittee from its inception.
He has served on the board or investment committees of numerous organizations including the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (NM), the Lensic Performing Arts Center (NM), the National Dance Institute of New Mexico, Santa Fe Preparatory School (NM) and Oceana (DC).
He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Colby and served on Colby's Board of Trustees. In 2015, he received an honorary doctorate from his alma mater.
Job Titles:
- Chairman of the Board of Directors
- Assistant Professor of Law at Vermont Law & Graduate School
Anna F. Connolly is an Assistant Professor of Law at Vermont Law & Graduate School. Prior to that, she was an attorney at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP where her practice focused on international and domestic commercial litigation as well as pro bono matters. She has won numerous awards for her pro bono service on behalf of survivors of domestic violence and sex trafficking. She served as a law clerk to the Honorable Raymond J. Lohier, Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and to the Honorable Cathy Seibel of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. She received a J.D. degree from Columbia University School of Law, where she was a James Kent Scholar and an editor of the Columbia Law Review. She received an undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College.
Job Titles:
- Community Actionist Hands Are for Holding
Annie Morgan hails from Birmingham, Alabama and spent her early years training at The Alabama School of Fine Arts. She continued her studies at Point Park University's Conservatory of Dance where she received her BFA in ballet. In 2018, Annie joined GroundWorks DanceTheatre as a Dance and Teaching Artist and in 2020, was named one of Dance Magazine's "25 to Watch." Now, Annie is working as a freelance dance and teaching artist in NYC. She is overjoyed to have joined Gibney's Hands are for Holding® team, using dance to facilitate larger conversations with young people.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board
- Vice President at Jefferies LLC
- Vice President of the New York City Chapter of the Elmira College Alumni Association
Arri Burrows is a Vice President at Jefferies LLC in New York, NY. Mr. Burrows joined Jefferies' Not-for Profit Infrastructure Banking division in 2011 and provides syndication, investment banking and advisory services to issuers of municipal bonds across the United States. Since 2011, Mr. Burrows has participated in over $20 billion of lead or co-managed capital market transactions. These financings served as the backbone for some of the largest infrastructure projects in recent history, including the New NY Bridge, the construction of the Second Avenue Subway line in New York, and providing clean drinking water through financings for the Office of the Mayor of New York City. Mr. Burrows also works on corporate infrastructure initiatives and recently led over $400 million of stadium financings for the New York Jets.
Originally from Nassau, Bahamas, Mr. Burrows is the inaugural winner of the Elmira College-Sunshine Insurance Bahamian Essay Scholarship Competition and was also awarded the E.C. Presidential Scholarship and the Senior Leadership Prize. Mr. Burrows has passed the Certified Public Accountant (CPA) Examination, is FINRA Series 7 and 63 licensed and holds a Bachelors of Science Degree in Economics, Accounting & International Business Management from Elmira College.
Job Titles:
- Contact Global Touring Representative
Job Titles:
- Associate
- Production Manager
Job Titles:
- Secretary of the Board of Directors
- Founder & Executive Director of the Ready Foundation LLC
As Founder & Executive Director of The Ready Foundation LLC www.thereadyfoundation.com, Bethany is a hands on philanthropist working with at-risk and under-served groups across New York City's five boroughs.
Serving in board governance and strategic advisory roles with NYC non-profit organizations including The Door, StreetWise Partners and Gibney Dance, Bethany's focus supports workforce development, economic development and education programs. In addition to her board roles, Bethany serves as a mentor and coach for young adults and alumni of Year Up and The Posse Foundation.
Bethany's experience is drawn from more than 20 years of work in the for-profit sector with consulting firms, "Fortune 500" corporations, and venture capital backed start-ups. She served in executive sales, marketing and business development leadership roles at Deloitte, Gartner and two venture backed start- ups after more than a decade at The Thomson Corporation.
Bethany earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration in 1987, from the Pennsylvania State University, majoring in Marketing; graduating with honors.
Job Titles:
- MEMBER of the HONORARY BOARD
Bree Jackson was proudly born and raised in Baltimore, MD. She earned her Bachelors of Fine Arts in Dance Performance and Choreography from Towson University in 2022. Prior to attending University she attended and graduated from Baltimore School for the Arts in 2017. Jackson has been dancing since she was three years old! She has trained in styles such as jazz, ballet, contemporary, lyrical, tap and hip hop. Once entering Baltimore School for the Arts, she began her classical training in ballet, modern and pointe. Jackson began her teaching career in 2019 in the greater Baltimore area at dance studios as well as after school programs. Since then she has grown a strong passion for teaching and working with youth from ages three to eighteen. Along with being a dancer and teacher, Bree Jackson is also a choreographer. Her work, Shedding Skin, was featured in the Peabody Dance Festival!
Campbell Ives is a Brooklyn-based movement artist originally from New York's Hudson Valley. They earned a B.A. in Dance from Barnard College in 2022, where they performed in works by Wesley Ensminger, Arnie Zane, Mark Morris and Caroline Fermin. While there, they also studied psychology and environmental humanities, as well as supported student-run experimental performance. Currently, Campbell interns at Movement Research and co-facilitates a training program with Artichoke Dance Company, in addition to house managing for Gibney Presents.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board
- Social Science Researcher, Development
Carol J. Bryce-Buchanan is a social science researcher, development professional and dance devotee who resides in Harlem. She retired from Families and Work Institute in 2014 after serving as Director of Development for 15 years, overseeing their Corporate Leadership Circle, Board of Directors and all grants, contracts and contributions. Earlier Ms. Bryce-Buchanan worked in development in arts and educational institutions and held senior research and administrative positions at Yale University Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, New York Medical College and The Montreal General Hospital. She served on the Board of Dance Theater Workshop (DTW) for over 20 years, co-chaired the Advisory Council of New York Live Arts and proudly serves on Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group's Board. In 2007 she was awarded DTW's MOVE Award for her pivotal role in building the organization. Ms. Bryce-Buchanan holds a BSc from McGill and an MA from Concordia University (Canada). She raised her family on the Upper West Side and has long been active in community affairs.
Courtney is a freelance dancer and creator based in New York City. She received her BFA in
Job Titles:
- Senior Community Action Artistic Manager
- Support
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board
- Board Member / Owner / Founder, Symbio Physio
Chad holds multiple degrees and certifications in sports and ortho Physical Therapy. Strengthened by over a decade of clinical experience, Chad has developed the skill and reputation to be a widely sought-after physiotherapist across the NYC area as well as internationally. While his clinical expertise is broad, Chad specializes in treating runners, triathletes, dancers, and men's health.
Chad is also a competitive athlete. After several years as a professional dancer, he began his journey as an endurance athlete having competed in multiple marathons, several Ironman triathlons, Ultraman Florida and other extreme endurance events.
His passion as an entrepreneur and educator fuel a constant desire for growth and knowledge, and to share that with his patients. Living a fulfilled life of movement and balance, and offering the same to his patients and community build the foundation of his own personal mission.
Job Titles:
- Associate
- Artistic Associate
Eleni Loving (she/her) joined Gibney Company as an Artistic Associate in 2022. A 2022 graduate of The Juilliard School, Loving is a 2022 Princess Grace Honoraria Award winner and was presented the Artist as Citizen award by Juilliard's President, Damian Woetzel. She is grateful to have been named a 2018 YoungArts winner in Modern/Contemporary Dance, and a NAACP ACT-SO awardee. She has had the privilege of working personally with choreographers including Ohad Naharin, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Francesca Harper, Bobbi Jene Smith, and Justin Peck. In 2022, Eleni helped lead the first Juilliard improvisation residency for Ballet Tech by teaching their 6th grade class. She worked with Shamel Pitts and TRIBE Collective appearing in Calvin Klein's 2022 "This is Love" Pride Campaign and collaborated with Francesca Harper for her work in Works & Process at the Guggenheim Museum. Loving believes in focusing on developing her humanity just as much as her artistry. Having one always inform the other. Her Moving Toward Justice Fellowship, BEYOND THE SCOPE (BTS) podcast, aims to highlight the multiplicity of dancers as people and foster the awareness that dancers have agency in moving into whatever passions they might have, either after a performance career or alongside it. Loving is a native of Dallas, Texas and began her training with Dallas Black Dance Academy. She graduated from Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, supplementing her training with programs at The Dance Theatre of Harlem, Arts Umbrella, Alonzo King LINES Ballet, and others.
Emily "Emla" LaRochelle is an NYC-based dancer, choreographer, and theater technician. She received BAs in dance and biology from Connecticut College. She has performed in her own work, as well as in work with Sarazina Stein, Nazmo Dance, and Mindy Toro at venues around NYC, including Theater for the New City, PS122, Tada Theater, Triskelion Arts, Gibney Dance, Spoke the Hub, the Wild Project, CPR, and Arts on Site. She also loves working on the production side of dance and theater. In addition to working on lighting, sound, stage management, and run crew at Gibney, she also works as a freelance theater electrician and all-around stagehand at other performing arts spaces in the city.
Job Titles:
- Education & Marketing Associate / Operations
Erin McElhone (she/they) is a performer, arts administrator, and freelance creator based in Brooklyn. Originally from Dallas Texas, Erin graduated from Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in 2018 and Adelphi University in May 2022 with a BFA in dance and a minor in business. Following graduation, Erin spent the summer at the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival working as the School Programs Intern. She managed the Contemporary and Ann & Weston Hicks Choreography Fellows Programs. In addition to her role at Gibney Erin is the Director of Operations for Moving Forward Dallas, an innovative dance intensive and non-profit organization for young artists founded by Madison Hicks. Erin is passionate about being deeply involved in the contemporary dance world and making more dance happen.
Job Titles:
- Community Actionist Hands Are for Holding
Job Titles:
- MEMBER of the HONORARY BOARD
Job Titles:
- Director
- Member of the Leadership Team
Originally from Baltimore, Maryland, Gilbert T Small II's formal training started at the Baltimore School for the Arts. He received his BFA from SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Dance in 2009. While at Purchase, he studied abroad at Codarts in Rotterdam, an opportunity that shifted his perspective, pushing him to investigate and explore the multifaceted nature of the art form.
Small was a leading artist with the internationally acclaimed Ballet British Columbia under the leadership of Emily Molnar. During his ten years with the company, he worked with choreographers such as William Forsythe, Crystal Pite, Medhi Walerski, Emily Molnar, and Cayetano Soto to name a few. As a senior artist with Ballet BC, he was asked to take on the role of Rehearsal Director for the company's fall 2017 season. Small is a mentor to many emerging artists here and abroad and serves as guest faculty for institutions internationally, cultivating relationships and connections across many demographics and communities.
Job Titles:
- Artistic Director
- CEO
- Founder
- Leader
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Member of the Leadership Team
- Choreographer, Director, Teacher
Gina Gibney, a nationally recognized leader and entrepreneur in the field of arts and social justice, is the Founder, Director, and CEO of Gibney, a New York City-based arts organization dedicated to dance and social action. With a belief in the vast potential of movement, creativity, and performance to effect personal change and social transformation, Gina Gibney established the Gibney organization in Manhattan in 1991. Today, Gibney's presenting, training, fellowship and residency programs have served and supported thousands of New York City artists and audiences, and community outreach programs have impacted hundreds of lives, especially in the areas of domestic violence, economic inequality, and workforce development. Gibney Company, has grown from a small troupe of dancers presenting Gina Gibney's choreography into a critically acclaimed internationally touring contemporary dance company dedicated to commissioning and presenting today's most compelling choreographers. Gibney operates two New York City locations-280 Broadway near City Hall and 890 Broadway above Union Square-encompassing 23 studios and five performing spaces that serve as a nexus for a diverse and expansive artistic community.
Gina Gibney is known for pioneering innovative new programs which connect the arts with the broader community. Her work has impacted the lives of thousands of domestic violence survivors through programs like Move to Move Beyond, an evidence-based program that offers the transformative power of movement to survivors of gender-based violence and their families. Her Moving Toward Justice incubator uses art as a tool for activism and social impact with a focus on entrepreneurship, social engagement, and mobilization alongside artistry. Other innovative programs include the Dance in Process (DiP) Residency. One of the first programs of its kind, DiP provides extensive, holistic support for mid-career New York-based dance artists who are in the middle stages of work on a new project.
Gina Gibney's career started as an independent choreographer and quickly evolved with her acquisition of Studio 5-2 at 890 Broadway which immediately became a resource for the community, planting the seeds for what the Gibney organization has become today. During her 25 years as a choreographer, she created intimate, poetic works that explored the humanity and physicality of interpersonal connection, such as Landings (1992), Anchoring (1994), Coming from Quiet (1998), Time Remaining (2003), Thrown (2004), unbounded (2005) and View Partially Obstructed (2009).
In 2008, Gina Gibney was inducted into the Vanity Fair Hall of Fame for "making art and taking action." She has served as a Trustee of the national dance advocacy organization Dance/USA and received its Ernie Award in 2017 in recognition of her role as a changemaker in the field. She is a founding member of the Board of Directors of Dance/NYC and is a member of The Women's Forum of New York. She was included in Dance Magazine's 2017 list of The Most Influential People in Dance Today and was named to the Out100 2016 list of influential members of the LGBT community. In 2018 she received the Distinguished Alumni Award from her alma mater, Case Western Reserve University, and in 2019 was awarded the Floria Lasky Award from the Jerome Robbins Foundation and the Plus Factor Award from the string quartet ETHEL.
Gina Gibney is a frequent panelist and speaker on topics of dance, entrepreneurship, and arts-community partnerships. She holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Fine Arts from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH, where she graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa.
Gina Gibney is a choreographer, director, teacher and entrepreneur. She founded Gibney Dance in 1991 as a performing and social action dance company, and today the organization has rapidly emerged as a cultural leader that operates through three fields of action: Company, Community and Center.
Graham Feeny (he/his) joined Gibney Company as an Artistic Associate in 2022. He was previously an apprentice with Chamber Dance Project and most recently danced with BalletCollective and staged Justin Peck's Become A Mountain for BalletX. Feeny is a graduate of The Juilliard School, where he performed works by Marco Goecke, Bobbi Jene Smith, Justin Peck, Trisha Brown, Jamar Roberts, Paul Taylor, and Ohad Naharin. Additionally, he has participated in training programs with NDT, Arts Umbrella, and Springboard Dans Montreal where he studied works by Crystal Pite, William Forsythe, Alan Lucien, Sharon Eyal, and Paul Lightfoot, among others. Born and raised in Toledo, Ohio, Feeny began dancing at age two and trained in all dance styles for many years at Company C Dance Club.
Hannah Featherstone (She/Her) is a New York based dancer and choreographer who is originally from Minneapolis, MN. She attended Point Park University where she studied as a modern concentration and had the opportunity to perform works by Norbert De La Cruz, LaTasha Barnes, and Christopher Huggins. Since moving to New York City, she graduated from the Gibney Independent Study Program in February 2024. During her time in the program, she was able to learn from incredible artists such Baye & Asa, Nicole von Arx from NVA & Guests, and Laja Field of LAJAMARTIN. While training, Hannah also participated in workshops such as SpringboardX:8th Edition and Bodytalk with Vim Vigor. She continues to immerse herself into the NYC dance and choreography scene while also pursuing her passion for helping others in the dance community by being an Operations Associate at Gibney Dance. Hannah is excited to be a part of the Gibney team where she is a part of an uplifting, positive environment that encourages artists to connect and grow!
Hannah Hardy (she/her) will receive her BFA in Dance from Brigham Young University 2023 where she was a member of BYU's Contemporary Dance Theatre. Her interest in administration stems from her 4 years of work as an HR Office Assistant for BYU's Information Technology Dept. Her dance studies have taken her to Italy's Orsolina28 2022 Intensive and all over Europe including Spain, France, Austria, & the Netherlands. She is excited to blend her passions of dance and administration as an Operations Associate.
Job Titles:
- Community Actionist Hands Are for Holding
As a member of the ever-expanding LGBTQIA+ family, Thoman's Advocacy Fellowship is a multi-prong biannual magazine featuring intergenerational artists across mediums. This publication will be dedicated to community care and self-practices that highlight senses of validation and grounding calmness.
Jake Tribus (he/him) joined Gibney Company as an Artistic Associate in 2020. He is a 2020 graduate of USC's Glorya Kaufman School of Dance under the direction of Jodie Gates. Tribus' past training includes intensives with Netherlands Dance Theater, Batsheva Gaga Technique, The Juilliard School, and Complexions Contemporary Ballet. Additionally he has performed repertoire from choreographers William Forsythe, Ohad Naharin, Crystal Pite, Jîrí Kylián, Twyla Tharp, Johan Inger, Sharon Eyal, Paul Taylor, Victor Quijada, Aszure Barton, Sonya Tayeh, and Dwight Rhoden. Jake has performed on stages including The Joyce Theatre (with Gibney Company and the Glorya Kaufman School of Dance), The Shed (with A Quiet Evening of Dance by William Forsythe), the Kampnagel International Summer Festival (premiering Where There's Form by Aszure Barton), and in 2022 the Fire Island Dance Festival (choreography by Akira Uchida and Micaela Taylor). He has also performed in music videos and on stage for artists including Taylor Swift, Lorde, Backstreet Boys, and Janet Jackson, among others. Jake is the recipient of a 2022 Princess Grace Award in Dance. Jake most recently was a lead actor and dancer in "Daytripper," a film directed and choreographed by James Whiteside in partnership with All Arts (a program of PBS). His Moving Toward Justice Fellowship project with Gibney, Converge2Emerge ("C2E"), aims to magnify emerging choreographic voices in New York City through career mentorship, financial resources, and artistic collaboration. He is originally from Raleigh, North Carolina, where he began his training at CC & Company Dance Complex. He also trained at Next Generation Ballet in Tampa, Florida, under the direction of Peter Stark.
Tribus' Advocacy Fellowship, Converge2Emerge, ("C2E") aims to magnify emerging choreographic voices in New York City through resource allocation, professional mentorship, career development, and artistic collaboration. We curate dance performances that seek to showcase a wide range of dance forms while challenging the Eurocentric placement of dance solely on a theatre stage by activating unconventional spaces. An application process will reward selected choreographers with the resources to create work and cultivate their voice, mentorship in self-production to continue building their portfolio, and a network to draw upon in the future.
The first selected emerging choreographer Rachel Harris and cinematographer Aidan Gibney will collaborate to create a virtual dance film set to premiere in September 2021.
Job Titles:
- Chairman Emeritus of the HONORARY BOARD
Jesse Obremski (he/him) joined Gibney Company in 2018 as a Guest Artist and became an Artistic Associate in 2019. He joined the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company at the age of 19 and has since then worked with Helen Simoneau Dance, Peter Stathas Dance, WHITE WAVE, Kate Weare Company, Brian Brooks Moving Company, and The Limón Dance Company (soloist and principal) among others. He is a sought-after educator and speaker, and has restaged José Limón's work at MOVE|NYC|, The University of Wyoming, and has assisted Limón restagings at The Juilliard School (2015-2018). Obremski is the movement director and choreographer for the musical duo, The Sound of Aja, and a collaborator with The BringAbout. He is the recipient of the Asian American Arts Alliance's 2016 Jadin Wong Award, is an Eagle Scout Rank recipient, has been mentioned in the NY Times, NY1, and was named Dance Magazine's March 2019 Dancer "On The Rise". From 2022-2023, Obremski was the Associate Executive Director of Earl Mosley's Diversity of Dance (EMDOD) after serving on its Board for four years. In 2018, he founded Obremski/Works, which has been presented internationally with an emphasis on dance films and AAPI Support Fellowships. Obremski's choreographic works have been presented across the United States, Canada, Czech Republic, Turkey, Germany, Japan, China, and Malaysia by Gibney Company, Buglisi Dance Theatre, Brigham Young University, EMDOD, Obremski/Works, and has been produced by Gibney Company and Fall For Dance North 2023, among others. For his Gibney Moving Toward Justice Fellowship project, Obremski founded OUR PATHS, which cultivates greater communal empathy through podcasts, video interviews, written articles, festivals, and workshops. A native of New York City, Obremski began his studies at The Ailey School, studied at Jacob's Pillow and Springboard Danse Montreal, and is a graduate of The Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School and The Juilliard School.
Obremski's Moving Toward Justice Fellowship project OUR PATHS envisions and cultivates an ethos where WHY is at the forefront of how we see each other, ourselves, and our global community towards communal empathy. Through an online platform featuring video, written interviews, podcasts, and workshop models, OUR PATHS creates space for dialogue, highlighting artists from across the field and exploring individual motivations and ideas in an effort to foster communal empathy.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board
- Senior Vice President and Senior Portfolio Management Director
Jessica A. Marshall is a Senior Vice President and Senior Portfolio Management Director at a lead financial services institution. Jessica earned her bachelor's degree from Finch College and a master's degree in business administration from Bernard Baruch College. Today, with more than 30 years in the financial services industry, Jessica focuses on portfolio management and financial planning for corporate executives, young professionals, business owners, individuals, and families. She is further committed to empowering women to live their best financial lives through her work. She has been named in Forbes Magazine's 2019, 2020, and 2021 lists of America's Best-in-State Wealth Advisors.
Job Titles:
- Director of Development
- Development Professional and Theater Producer
- Support
Jessica Ashleigh Pomeroy is an experienced development professional and theater producer based in New York City. She holds a BFA in Directing and Producing from The New School for Performing Arts, and an MA in Arts Administration from Columbia University, where her thesis research focused on the benefits of the arts for society at large, and the importance of diversity and anti-racism in the performing arts.
Before joining Gibney's team, Jessica sharpened her fundraising skills as the Development Director at HERE Arts Center. There, she planned and implemented dynamic fundraising campaigns, developed meaningful relationships with individual and institutional funders, and led the charge on a number of successful cultivation and fundraising events including the annual gala. Prior to that, she honed her individual giving knowledge as Membership Manager for the PROTOTYPE opera festival, where she oversaw the festival's entire individual giving and membership program.
Prior to her work in development, Jessica founded and worked as Co-Artistic Director of HERE WE GO LLC, where she produced, marketed and raised funds for a number of site-specific theater festivals throughout NYC. Jessica also has a wide breadth of experience in the industry as a musical theater performer, theater director, teaching artist and education program coordinator.
All of Jessica's knowledge and experience in different facets of the performing arts have led her to where she is now. Her work is characterized by a profound understanding and deep passion for the positive impact that the arts can have on communities. Today, she aims to find innovative, inspirational ways to secure vital funds for forward-thinking performance work centered on social impact.
Shiau's Advocacy Fellowship, BODYHUES, exists to challenge harmful body stereotypes that have been fostering a culture that nurtures hierarchy, exclusion, and supremacy based on how one looks; and to remind culture that not one body is the same, and different is absolutely beautiful. It is time to dismantle body-shaming culture, deconstruct body stereotypes, and create spaces for all. BODYHUES believes that when loving and celebrating our miraculous bodies and building confidence in our bodies, we are truly thriving by unlocking the full potential, pleasure, and creativity from within.
BODYHUES, launched in August 2021, features four guest speakers presenting workshops that center nurturing self-love, self-care, self-confidence, and creativity within participants.
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- Community Actionist Hands Are for Holding
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- Member of the Board of Directors
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- Member of the Leadership Team
- Producer
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- Treasurer of the Board of Directors
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- Production Stagehand Trainee
Pajarillaga's Advocacy Fellowship project, EVERGREEN, is a platform for diverse creators to produce socially relevant and impactful new works on film. In response to the lack of in person performance opportunities during this time, this project will also serve as an online archive and database of artistic films that will be open and accessible to the public. Curated films will challenge artists to reflect on their sense of purpose in a unified and collaborative space.
In April 2021, Kevin Pajarillaga partnered with Portland school/organization "Open Space" to conduct a virtual workshop with six teachers over three days in honor of Earth Day, with all proceeds going to the environmental organization, Asian Pacific Environmental Network.
Zielińska's OKAY, LET'S UNPACK THIS aims to normalize the conversation on mental health in the dance community. When the pandemic caused the cancellation of shows, tours, and rehearsals the OKAY, LET'S UNPACK THIS collective quickly realized that many artists who rely on mental health services would struggle to access critical support systems due to significant loss of income. Over the past several months, OKAY has cultivated a community of therapists and counselors who are offering free services to dancers during this unprecedented crisis. Their services are listed on OKAY's website, www.okayokayokay.org, alongside other mental health resources. The website also shares dance artists' own mental health stories in written and video form and offers comprehensive resource lists for anyone who might need additional support.
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- Deputy Director of Digital Media
Feeling the need to create more opportunities for dancers later in their performance careers, Phelan's Advocacy Fellowship project, Movement Museum, aims to support mid-career and established artists in building upon their artistic portfolios. By widening participants' skillsets within the field, the project's ultimate goal is to promote sustainable longevity in dance. The project will provide dancers with tools, resources, and guidance from leaders in the field to support their journeys in developing multifaceted career opportunities while still performing.
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- Community Actionist Hands Are for Holding
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Second Vice Chair
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- Member of the Leadership Team
- Center Artistic Director
In 2015, with support from Gibney's Moving Toward Justice Fellowship program, Campbell co-founded MOVE|NYC| with his partner Chanel DaSilva. MOVE|NYC|‘s mission is to cultivate greater diversity and equity in the dance field and beyond. The cornerstone of MOVE|NYC| is its tuition-free, Young Professionals Program which provides year-round access to 1-on-1 mentorship & college/conservatory prep for a diverse roster of gifted New York City teenagers. MOVE|NYC| aims to empower the next generation of leaders in our field by celebrating each young artist's unique cultural identity.
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- MEMBER of the HONORARY BOARD
- Founding Chair
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- & Choreographic Associate
- an Artistic Associate
- Named Gibney Company Choreographic Associate
Rena Butler is Gibney Company's Choreographic Associate. This is a new position created to allow Butler, who joined Gibney Company as an Artistic Associate in 2020, to continue her career as a professional dancer while further developing her talent and experience as a choreographer and leader in the dance field. The three-year, full-time position will provide time and space for research and travel as Butler develops new works for Gibney Company and for dance companies in the U.S. and abroad, while she continues to rehearse and perform with Gibney Company.
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- Director of Operations
- Director of Rentals & Operations
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- Senior Manager of Education & Marketing
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- Facilities & Operations Manager
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- Chairman Emeritus of the HONORARY BOARD
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- Producing Director of Learning & Leadership
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- Manager of Development Operations
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- MEMBER of the HONORARY BOARD
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- Lead Actionist Hands Are for Holding®
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- Partnership Manager Hands Are for Holding®
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- Member of the Leadership Team
- Senior Director of Community Action
Gomez's Moving Toward Justice Fellowship aims to provide dancers/artists with the resources and support to advocate for themselves while feeling more confident in their own skin. Developed for dance professionals to students, CONFIDANZ offers photography workshops and services from a photographer's perspective, focusing on lighting basics, movement coaching, and informative legal guidance all while valuing healthy dialogue throughout the process.
CONFIDANZ workshops create a safe and supportive environment for dance artists to learn tangible tools and build ‘confidanz' that will support them in participating in safe, successful, and empowering photo shoots. CONFIDANZ published a 2021 calendar featuring members of Gibney Company.