Description

The Gibney Company Intensive 2026 offers a multi-day immersive experience designed to support dance artists in deepening their contemporary practice through rigorous, responsive, research-driven training. This intensive invites participants to engage closely with Gibney Company’s distinctive artistic approach while working directly with Company Director Gilbert T. Small II and Gibney Company Artistic Associates. Participants will work with repertory drawn from Gibney Company’s acclaimed body of work, offering a unique opportunity to explore the company’s physical rigor, choreographic range, and humanistic storytelling. Through this process, dancers are encouraged to cultivate a personal voice within the movement, developing technical clarity alongside intention, interpretation, and presence. By engaging deeply with the company’s repertoire, participants will gain insight into the demands of a contemporary dance company setting, including what it means to embody material with integrity, make informed artistic choices, and navigate complex physical and interpersonal practices. The intensive will culminate in an informal showing of the repertory explored throughout the week, providing participants the opportunity to share their process and development. About Gibney Company: Gibney Company, led by Artistic Director Gina Gibney and Company Director Gilbert T Small II, commissions and performs works by renowned and emerging choreographers from New York and around the world. The Company explores the intersection of contemporary dance’s rigorous physicality with responsive, humanistic storytelling. Gibney Company champions both artistic excellence and social integrity, presenting a broad range of aesthetics and techniques. Gibney Company’s 21st-century model supports sustainable careers for dancers and fosters healthy working relationships for artists and collaborators. Artistic Associates advance the quality of the Company’s artistry through performance and deepen its community engagement through Moving Toward Justice Fellowships, which address social issues and inequities in the dance field. Application Deadline: Sunday, April 12, 2026 at 11:59pm EST Notification Date: Friday, April 17, 2026 Tuition: $950 Partial Need-based Scholarships Available APPLICATION SCHOLARSHIPS Limited partial need-based scholarships are available for Gibney Company Intensive 202​6. Click HERE for the Scholarship Application. PAYMENT DETAILS There is no application fee for this program. Accepted participants will be asked to submit a $500 deposit by​ Friday, May 1, 202​6. Because Gibney Company Intensive has a limited capacity, this non-refundable deposit confirms your place in the program. The remaining tuition, $450.00, is due June 1, 2026. Partial scholarships will be awarded along with acceptance into the program, on April 17th, 2025. For scholarship recipients, a deposit of $500 will be due by May ​1, 202​6, and the remaining tuition balance is due on June 1, 2026.