New spaces to open at Gibney 280: Take the survey!

Gina Gibney (CEO/Artistic Director) and Craig Peterson (Director of Programs and Presentation) hosted a town hall meeting last evening at Gibney Dance: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center to address the organization's goal of developing an additional 10,000 square feet of raw space at its 280 Broadway location.

The key issues we face are how to raise funds for the renovation, how to create a sustainable operating model, and how to deploy the space to best advantage [for] the NYC dance community.

Preliminary plans show the potential for as much as seven new rental spaces in an area currently rented from Gibney Dance by Pace University on a short-term basis. Gibney and Peterson describe this area as perfect for dance with less column obstruction and beautiful windows providing lots of natural light.

The town hall drew a small attendance, but Gibney Dance hopes to extend its engagement and dialogue with the community via an online survey to determine space needs, priorities and preferences.

You are invited to participate in the survey and to share it widely with your friends and colleagues in the dance community so that more voices can be heard.

Please click here to begin.

Making space work for New York's dancers

Gibney Dance Center Pioneers a New Financial Model While Providing Much Needed Dance-Work Space
by Jennifer Edwards, The Huffington Post

Gibney: Space needs consideration!

Space Needs Considered

Gibney Dance, November 23, 2010

A report on TIME TO TALK: SPACE NEEDS OF NYC DANCE ARTISTS, the November 22 open community discussion on space rental needs, hosted by Gibney Dance Center

We need to talk...about space!

On premises
(c)2010, Eva Yaa Asantewaa

Please join choreographer Gina Gibney and me on Monday, November 22, for a dance community discussion about rehearsal space needs and how the new Gibney Dance Center can be responsive and innovative.

Here are the details:

TIME TO TALK: Space Needs of NYC Dance Artists

by Gina Gibney, Gibney Dance, November 14, 2010

Gibney Dance Center
Monday, November 22, 6:30pm-8pm*
890 Broadway, Fifth Floor - Studio 1

*No building entry after 7 pm + no elevator service after 7:55 pm

Thank Gibney it's Friday...or Saturday

Gibney Dance Center is running a "special" from now through December 30, a "TGIF Special." Rent Studio 2 for $10/hour on Fridays and Saturdays.

Click here for general information on renting at GDC.

To book space, email michele@gibneydance.org or call (212) 677-8560.

DASH up to Harlem

DASH (Dance Arts Studio Harlem) founder Nathanael Buckley and co-founder Stefanie Nelson invite you to a community gathering of artists who live and/or work in Harlem (and surrounding areas) and who are in need of space, resources, a local community of artists and more.

On June 1 (8pm), meet at Havana Central, 2911 Broadway (at 114th street).

More information on DASH

New Rochelle makes space for artists

New Rochelle Creates Affordable Space for Artists
by Juli S. Charkes, The New York Times, March 12, 2009

A site to see!

Have you seen DTW's re-designed Web site? Snazzy!

M-Plateau: Koosil-ja's rehearsal space for rent in Williamsburg

[Editor's Note: Please note Koosil-ja's downward revision of her rental rate. She has also decided to name her space M-Plateau.]

An announcement from dancer-choreographer Koosil-ja:

Hello friends,

I am in a process to sign a lease for 1,000 sq ft space at 195 Morgan Avenue, 3rd floor of 3rd Ward. I would have to store 30 TVs and other goods in this space, so the actual space for your use would be 700 sq ft.

I am thinking to rent it out by hour, with the rate of $5. The space will be available starting September. It is 24/7 access.

Let me know if you have any question or are interested to rent. I'd appreciate your support and please spread the word.

Thanks.

koosil-ja

Location: 195 Morgan at the corner of Stagg Street, East Williamsburg, Brooklyn

By subway

• Take the L line to the Grand Street stop. Head south on Bushwick Avenue (towards the school) one long block and make a left on Stagg Street. 3rd ward is located three blocks down Stagg Street on the corner of Morgan Avenue.
• We are also easily accessible from the Montrose and Morgan Avenue stops on the L train.