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WHAT	Gibney Company will perform its summer 2022 season in New York City at New York Live Arts with a program of three world premieres by internationally recognized choreographers Rena Butler, Gustavo Ramírez Sansano, and Yin Yue.   The five-night run, titled Up Close, will present a range of contemporary choreographic styles and compositions. Works on the program reflect present-day concerns around reconfiguring and maintaining identity, while navigating personal and shared spaces.   Loosely referencing the “Allegory of the Cave” from Book 7 of Plato’s Republic, Rena Butler’s Re | Build | Construct examines how our realities are shaped by personal and shared environments. Gustavo Ramírez Sansano’s To the End of Love explores how technology has changed the pursuit of romance. In A Measurable Existence, Yin Yue delves into how we discover aspects of ourselves by discovering others.  For more information click here.
WHO	Gibney Company is a creation-based repertory company that commissions work from internationally renowned and emerging choreographers committed to exploring connections between the rigorous physicality of contemporary dance and responsive, humanistic storytelling.
WHEN	June 14, 2022 at 7:30pm June 15-16, 2022 at 7:30pm June 17-18, 2022 at 8:00pm June 18, 2022 at 2:00pm
WHERE	New York Live Arts 219 W 19th St New York, NY 10011
TICKETS	Ticket prices: $15-$35 Opening Night Performance and Reception Tickets: $75 Tickets available for purchase online at: https://newyorklivearts.org/event/up-close/
About Gibney Company Gibney Company, led by Artistic Director Gina Gibney and Director Gilbert T Small II, is Gibney’s resident dance ensemble. Gibney Company is a creation-based repertory company commissioning work from both internationally renowned and emerging choreographers who are committed to exploring connections between the rigorous, often superhuman physicality of contemporary dance alongside responsive, humanistic storytelling.   Transformed in 2020 through a $2 million gift from Andrew A. Davis, a Trustee of the Shelby Cullom Davis Charitable Fund, Gibney Company (formerly Gibney Dance Company) presents a broad range of aesthetics and techniques and has an unrelenting focus on artistic excellence and social integrity.   About Gibney Founded by Gina Gibney 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. Gibney deploys resources through three strategic and interwoven program areas: Gibney Center, a meeting ground for New York City’s artistic community comprising 23 studios and 5 performance spaces that provide critical space for training, rehearsal, professional development, performances, and convenings; Gibney Community, programs that use movement to help address a range of social issues with a focus on gender-based violence and its prevention; and Gibney Company. Gibney supports movement-based artists in every aspect of their creative development: classes, residencies, low-cost rental space, entrepreneurial training and incubation, presentation opportunities, commissioning, and operating a professional dance company.   Image Credits: (Pictured left to right) Rena Butler, photo by Nir Arieli; Gustavo Ramírez Sansano, photo by Jonathan Mackoff; Yin Yue, photo courtesy of the artist.   Photo by Nir Arieli. Styling by Sueann Leung. Dancer: Jie-Hung Connie Shiau.