Nora Gibson is a dancer and choreographer. Her early training included attending Baltimore School for the Arts, acceptance to ballet residencies with Jean-Pierre Bonnefous, of NYCB, and acceptance to Chautauqua. She later graduated with a BFA from Tisch at NYU. Nora studied improvisational forms with Daniel Lepkoff, Andrew Marcus, Andrew Harwood, Nancy Stark-Smith, and KJ Holmes. Nora has been privileged to dance for PATH Dance Company in Baltimore, MD, and for Andrew Marcus in NY, NY. She currently works with ClancyWorks Dance Co. in D.C., and with Jeffrey Gunshol, formerly of Mark Dendy Dance. She has performed her own work throughout NYC at venues such as P.S. 122, St. Marks Church, and DIA Center for the Arts. Nora established Nora Gibson Performance Project in 2008 with Philadelphia as its home base, and performs prolifically throughout Philly. NGPP has had the pleasure of being an artist in residence with Mascher Space Co-op from October ‘08-March ‘09, and was awarded a 2009-10 Artist in Residency through the nEW Festival. She was awarded the New Edge Residency for 2009-10. Most recently, her work was accepted to be included in Dance Alliance’s New Mix Series, and will be presented at Joyce SOHO in April 2010..
Artist Statement: I have been increasingly appreciating the medium of dance as a visual art. Beyond motion are the crystalline images I see throughout a piece, whether an abstract pattern or an image with a distinct literary association. These pictures open up doorways in my thoughts. Watching dance in this way is the same experience I have when reading a line of poetry that is highly imagistic. There are the words, and then there is the explosion of recognition when I see the picture. I want to make dance like the poet who detonates that vibrant picture in the mind. I want the viewer of my dances to experience the beauty of pattern, or to allow the images I embed in the piece to unlock their literary self, their thinking self, their feeling self.
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