HMD's 2020 Bridge Project POWER SHIFT: Improvisation, Activism, and Community presents
Artists as Agents of Change, co-facilitated by Gibney Company directors Nigel Campbell and Amy Miller is an art and activism workshop for artists, social workers, educators, and activists interested in cross-sector exchange around embodied social change. No movement background is necessary.
Saturday SEPTEMBER 26, 2020, 10AM - 2PM (PDT) / 1PM - 5PM (EDT)*
This is an online event taking place on Zoom. You will receive a Zoom link via email one day prior to the event.
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TICKETS: $75 - $250 (before 9/1) / $100 - $250 (after 9/1), sliding scale. If you are not able to afford the lowest ticket price but would still like to attend, please email admin@hopemohr.org.
$75: Early Bird discount, available through 9/1
$100: If your organization’s annual budget is below $100k, or are an independent consultant/art sector or nonprofit professional
$150: If your organization's budget is between $100k and $250k.
$200: If your organization’s annual budget is between $250k and $500k.
$250: If your organization’s annual budget is over $500k.
Register for 2 Power Shift events and SAVE 10%. Register for 3 or more Power Shift events and SAVE 15%. Email admin@hopemohr.org for discount codes.
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*HMD's commitment to bringing people together through art and dialogue drives everything we do. We are currently in dialogue with POWER SHIFT artists to reimagine events that bring us together safely as we navigate the covid-19 pandemic. All POWER SHIFT events will take place in the digital space, or in-person at outdoor locations with restrictions on capacity and ample space for safe distancing. Masks will be required at in-person events. All events are subject to change. We look forward to sharing art and community with you this coming fall.
QUESTIONS? Email admin@hopemohr.org
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ABOUT ARTISTS AS AGENTS OF CHANGE | Artists as Agents of Change workshop acknowledges the incredible humanity and expertise in every room and celebrates a diversity of perspectives as vital through Gibney’s philosophy for action: look inside, speak through movement, work together, and take care. This workshop introduces participants to Gibney's Community Action Model of addressing and preventing gender-based violence, as well as mobilizing the arts as a vehicle for social change. Facilitated by Campbell and Miller, the workshop includes both participatory and theoretical elements and is open to artists, social workers, educators, and activists interested in cross-sector exchange around embodied social change.
ABOUT NIGEL CAMPBELL | Princess Grace Award Winner Nigel Campbell was born and raised in The Bronx, New York. Campbell began his training at Creative Outlet Dance Theater and is a graduate of LaGuardia Arts High School, and of The Juilliard School, under the direction of Lawrence Rhodes. Campbell has received additional training from The Miami City Ballet School, The School at Jacob’s Pillow, The Alvin Ailey School and Springboard Danse Montreal. While still at Juilliard, Campbell joined the Metropolitan Opera Ballet as a soloist. Since graduation, he has danced full time for the Saarlandisches Staatstheater under the direction of Marguerite Donlon, Luna Negra Dance Theater under the direction of Gustavo Ramirez Sansano, the GöteborgsOperans Danskompani under the direction of Adolphe Binder and has also been a guest artist with Kyle Abraham’s A.I.M. In 2017, Campbell was named a Director of Gibney Company after spending two years as a dancer and Artistic Associate. In 2019, Nigel joined the faculty of The Juilliard School as an adjunct professor, teaching “Essentials of Entrepreneurship in the Arts” for dancers. The same year he also joined the faculty at S.U.N.Y. Purchase Conservatory of Dance as an adjunct professor teaching contemporary. A sought after master teacher and répétiteur, Campbell has set dances and given workshops throughout the United States and abroad at institutions such as The Juilliard School, USC Kaufman School for Dance, SUNY Purchase Dance Conservatory, Boston Conservatory, NYU Tisch, Princeton University, Yale University, The Ballet Akademien Göteborg, Ballet Hispanico, No)one. Art House, MUDA Africa, & Springboard Danse Montreal, among many others. In addition, Campbell has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors including a 2019 Martha Hill Mid-Career Award, a 2011 Princess Grace Award, a National YoungArts Level 1 Award and a NAACP ACT-SO Gold Medal. Campbell is a 2004 Presidential Scholar in the Arts and at 17, was featured on the National PBS documentary American Talent. In 2015, Nigel co-founded MOVE|NYC| with his partner Chanel DaSilva with the mission of cultivating greater diversity and equity in the dance field and beyond. In 2020, Campbell and DaSilva were Dance Teacher Magazine’s cover feature for its May/June issue, Changing the Face of Dance. The magazine’s main article, When you’re the Only Black Dancer in the Room, outlined the growth and impact of MOVE|NYC|’s first five years. Campbell resides in New York City.
ABOUT AMY MILLER | Amy Miller is a NYC-based dancer, choreographer, educator and advocate. Formerly with the Ohio Ballet, she was also a founding member and artistic associate of Cleveland-based GroundWorks DanceTheater. Now a Gibney Company Director alongside Nigel Campbell, and a performing member of Gibney Company, Miller has facilitated numerous teaching residencies at Oberlin College, Brown University, NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, and Bates Dance Festival among many others. Miller also focuses on Gibney’s Community Action initiatives through facilitating movement workshops with survivors of trauma, conducting both local and international trainings for artists interested in engaging in social action, developing healthy relationship workshops for young people and raising awareness about the role of the arts in violence prevention. She has conducted Gibney’s Global Community Action Residencies at Mimar Sinan University and Koc University (Istanbul), University of Cape Town (South Africa), DOCH: School of Dance and Circus (Stockholm), MUDA Africa (Tanzania) and most recently in Gisenyi, Rwanda. She is an active member of the National Dance Education Organization’s Access, Diversity and Equity Committee, as well as Dance/USA’s Dance & Disability Affinity Group working toward National Initiatives. Miller has twice been a Dance/USA Mentor through their Institute for Leadership Training. Miller was honored to receive an Arts & Artists in Progress “Pay it Forward” Award from Brooklyn Arts Exchange. Miller holds a BFA in Dance and is a recipient of an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award for her choreography.
ABOUT POWER SHIFT | POWER SHIFT: Improvisation, Activism, and Community invites artists and activists to share the practice and performance of improvisation. Co-curated by Cherie Hill, Hope Mohr, and Karla Quintero, POWER SHIFT brings you inside the improvisational practices of Black/African American, Latinx/Latin American, Asian American, female-identifying and queer improvisers and social justice activists. The program highlights voices from African dance, jazz aesthetics, social and street dance, contemporary forms, and Capoeira.
POWER SHIFT is about more than performance. A wide array of intensives and workshops at the intersection of dance and social action offer opportunities to build and share tools for the creative process. In these spaces, we will move and imagine together. We will cultivate power and resilience in the face of shifting and uncertain landscapes.
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Photo (L to R): Nigel Campbell & Amy Miller by Stephanie Diani
For more information on the entire Power Shift line up visit bridgeproject.art/powershift.
