In 2013, with support from The Agnes Varis Trust, Gibney Dance's Community Action reached its goal of offering 500 workshops each year to survivors of domestic violence.
Additionally, the Center offers a roster of programs and services designed to serve New York's professional dance community, such as artist residencies, space grants, and feedback forums for choreographers.
New facilities at 280 Broadway include a center for professional development called the Learning and Leadership Studio, a hub for the organization's Community Action Program, a white-wall gallery for visual art, and a digital media workroom for artists.
Through original movement creation and trust-building activities, Gibney Dance Company members work with survivors of domestic violence to address issues of choice, self-expression, and sharing.
Since its inception in 2000, Gibney Dance's Community Action has partnered with Sanctuary for Families and Safe Horizon, two of New York's leading organizations dedicated to serving victims of domestic violence.
In April 2013, Gibney Dance Company travelled to Istanbul, Turkey to conduct a Community Action Residency at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, teaching its unique approach to empowerment through movement to Turkish dancers and social service providers.
In May 2014, the Company travelled to Cape Town, South Africa to conduct its second Global Community Action Residency in partnership with iKapa Dance Theatre and the Saartjie Baartman Centre for Women and Children.
In the fall of 2014, Gibney Dance opened a Community Action Hub at 280 Broadway, a facility devoted to the organization's outreach program featuring a research and workspace and a resource library.
Gina Gibney, originally from Ohio, attended Case Western Reserve University, where she graduated with high honors (summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa) with a liberal arts degree.
I want to create a choreographic world where strength and tenderness are equally important, where touch and separation are meaningful, and where movement takes on the quality of an intimate conversation.
"Gibney finds in dance the proper set of incendiary devices to fuel life change, ignite new perspectives on women's roles, and hotwire the visual spectacle of live art."
— Tim Duroche, Willamette Week, January 10, 2007[5] "With any justice, history will honor Gina Gibney Dance for exquisite, sensitive choreography that mattered in a time when so much cultural product did not" — Eva Yaa Asantewaa, Village Voice, May 8, 2001[6] "Gina Gibney has established herself as a poet of modern dance today" —Jennifer Dunning, The New York Times, April 21, 1998[7] "Vanity Fair nominates Gina Gibney Dance, because they not only make art but take action, bringing the wisdom they've acquired as dancers into the lives of women whose minds and bodies house the memory of domestic violence" — Holly Brubach, Vanity Fair, April 2008[8] "Who better than dancers can help to physically express the inexpressible, which sets itself against words, hidden in the withdrawal of the body and the spirit?"
— Frédérique Doyon, Le Devoir, December 3, 2009[9] "Lower Manhattan's arts scene took a hit when Dance New Amsterdam vacated its TriBeCa home this fall.