Dance in Process Resident Artists Are Announced - Dean Moss, Lance Gries and More!
Congratulations to the 2013-2014 Gibney Dance Center (GDC) DiP Resident Artists: Dean Moss, Lance Gries,RoseAnne Spradlin, and Jon Kinzel. Each artist will receive three weeks of continuous rehearsal space, access to an adjacent Production Office, and a menu of staff support and resource options as part of the DiP program for mid-career, New York City-based dance artists.
Moss and Spradlin were chosen by a selection committee through an open request for proposals, while Gries and Kinzel were chosen by New York City dance presenting organizations Danspace Project and The Chocolate Factory, respectively. We look forward to hosting the artists at GDC in the coming year. Many thanks to panelists Barbara Bryan, Aaron Mattocks,Doug Post, and panel facilitator Dana Whitco.
DiP has been generously funded by the Agnes Varis Trust through the Varis Lab for Artistic Discovery, Jerome Robbins Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and The New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.Learn more about DiP.
2012 boo-koo Artist Joanna Kotze Wins Bessie Award
Congratulations to Joanna Kotze (pictured above), a 2012 GDC boo-koo space grant recipient and now the recipient of the 2013 Bessie Award for Outstanding Emerging Choreographer! Kotze was presented with a New York Dance and Performance Award, also known as a "Bessie," at the annual nominations press conference held last week in GDC's Studio 5-2. She was nominated for her work It Happened It Had Happened It Is Happening It Will Happen, presented at Danspace Project.Videos