MAKING SPACE
Gibney Dance Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center
280 Broadway between Chambers & Reade Sts.
March 23-26, $15-$20
gibneydance.org
After premiering its twenty-fifth anniversary program, Duet, at the Sevgi Gönül Cultural Center in Turkey, Gibney Dance is bringing it all back home, presenting the work, which consists of restaged excerpts from throughout the company’s repertoire, at the Gibney Dance Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center at 280 Broadway. The performance will take place at various spaces throughout the center, with limited seating as the audience follows the movement conversations, which date back to Gibney’s 1992 piece, Landings, and include a sneak peek at Gibney’s newest work, which will debut later this year. The duets will be performed by Natsuki Arai, Nigel Campbell, Alexeya Eyma-Manderson, Amy Miller, Devin Oshiro, and Brandon Welch, with music by Ryan Lott (Son Lux). “Assembling this program has been a labor of love, and an opportunity for me to reflect upon twenty-five years of artistic collaboration and life experience,” Gibney explained in a statement. “In looking back, I have thought a lot about the uncertainty of making art and sustaining a career over decades — and what it means to make something that disappears before your eyes. . . . I hope you will join me in relocating these past works here in 280 Broadway’s smallest spaces and corners that I have come to love.” The company moved into the downtown space in the fall of 2014; Duet is part of a reimagining of the company and the location for the future.