Past Bi-Weekly Workshops
Artists As Agents of Change with Amy Miller
Amy, currently a Co-Director of Gibney Company, is a NYC-based dancer, educator, administrator and advocate. Formerly with the Ohio Ballet, she was also a founding member and artistic associate of Cleveland-based GroundWorks DanceTheater. Miller also focuses on Gibney’s Community Action initiatives through facilitating movement workshops with survivors of gender-based violence. She shared this workshop with Artist After Hours on 1/24 that offers tools that aim to bring into focus the inherent empathy, compromise, collaboration, and sense of equity necessary for moving together in the dance studio in ways that inspire us all to move forward in our daily lives.
Photo by Stephanie Diani
Emergent Improvisation with Troy Ogilvie
Troy Ogilvie has worked with and for many choreographers and directors including - Sidra Bell, Andrea Miller, Margie Gillis, Antonio Brown, Zoe Scofield, Malena Dayen, Susan Misner, Kevin Newbury, Punchdrunk, and Peter Sellars. She teaches Emergent Improvisation as a digestion of her artistic lineage and adrienne maree brown’s “Emergent Strategy.” She shared Emergent Improvisation with Artist After Hours on 12/06 that dances the fractal relationship between self and the world.
Photo by Franziska Strauss
Improvisation with Janice Rosario
Janice Rosario is a nationally recognized contemporary dance choreographer and educator. Janice studied at Ballet Hispánico. The Alvin Ailey School, Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School for the Performing Arts and Hunter College.Janice has been commissioned by Ailey/Fordham University, Howard University, Dean College, Brockport University, Baltimore School of the Arts, Grand Canyon University, Irvine Valley College, and many more! She has also taught at many prestigious institutions and shared her improvisation class on Artist After Hours 11/22 that gave participants greater tools in explore their dynamic range.
Conversation with Jesse Obremski
Jesse Obremski has studied at LaGuardia High School, The Juilliard School, The School at Jacob’s Pillow, The Ailey School, Earl Mosley’s Institute of the Arts, and Springboard Danse Montréal. As Dance Magazine’s March 2019 Dancer “On The Rise” Jesse has performed with Diversity of Dance, Brian Brooks Moving Company, Peter Stathas Dance, Kate Weare Company, Lar Lubovitch Dance Company, Buglisi Dance Theatre, WHITE WAVE, The Limón Dance Company, and is a Gibney Company Artistic Associate. Obremski has had the honor to perform for the Obama family at the inaugural White House Dance Series as well as for the Olympic recognized FINA World Tournament 2019 in South Korea. Jesse has taught and choreographed nationally and internationally and share his expertise on Artist After Hours 10/18 that truly inspired participants to keep striving throughout the pandemic and look forward to the opportunities that lie ahead!
Q&A with Derek Brockington
Derek Brockington is currently in his 3rd season as a company member at Dance Theatre of Harlem. Before joining DTH he danced in the Second Company at Cincinnati Ballet, the Dance Asylum, the Grand Rapids Ballet School, and Interlochen Arts Academy. Brockington has also trained at The Pennsylvania Ballet, Ballet West and Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet on scholarship. He has performed works by Annabelle Lopez Ocha, Claudia Schrier. Darrell Grand Moultrie, George Balanchine, and Stanton Welch. Brockington was also a Co producer of the viral video “Dancing Through Harlem” and was featured with Dance Theatre of Harlem on the Ellen Show. Derek shared about the transition from student to professional, being in a company during this pandemic and more with participants on Artist After hours on 9/20!
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Improvisational Research and Discussion with Stephanie Mizrahi
Stephanie trained at Debbie Allen Dance Academy, Yuri Grigoriev School of Ballet and graduated magna cum laude from Fordham University and the Ailey School with a double major in Dance and History, with an honorable mention in Dance. She has enriched her dance training at Alonzo King LINES Ballet, San Francisco Conservatory of Dance, Movement Invention Project, the Gaga Intensive in Tel Aviv, and B12 Festival Berlin. Stephanie has performed works by Ohad Naharin, Alvin Ailey, Robert Battle, Jose Limón, Chuck Wilt, Gabrielle Lamb, Guy Nader & Maria Campos, Courtney Mazeika, and others. She has also worked with Yehuda Hyman’s Mystical Feet and Marie-Christine Giordano Dance, and assist classes for Janice Rosario. Stephanie presented her first evening-length choreographic work, "Tumbalalaika," in March 2020. She shared her workshop on 10/25 with Artist After Hours that enriched participants of the different pathways their bodies can explore!