Michelle N. Gibson, choreographer, instructor, and performing artist received her
B.F.A in Dance from Tulane University and her MFA in Dance and
Performance Studies from Hollins University/American Dance Festival at Duke
University graduate program. Relocated to Dallas, Texas after Katrina, New
Orleans native Michelle studied at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts,
the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center, the American Dance Festival, Jacob's
Pillow, and the Urban Bush Women's, "Walking with Pearl Primus"
intensive. Her motion picture credits include having been cast as a featured
dancer in the Academy Award nominated film, Interview
With a Vampire, the Academy Award winning film Ray, and the movie Just My
Luck with Lindsay Lohan.
Ms.
Gibson, faculty member with the American Dance Festival six week school
intensive held at Duke University, is also the founder and Artistic Director of
Exhibit Dance Collective. Michelle is currently teaching at Brookhaven College and
Mountain View College in Dallas, Texas. She holds an artist in residence position
with the Ashe' Cultural Arts Center in New Orleans and leads a resident dance
company at the South Dallas Cultural Center. Michelle is choreographer for Six
Flags/WOW Entertainment Dallas TX and a member of Drum Café. She previously taught
dance for the Dallas Independent School District teaching grades 9-12 and has
conducted numerous dance intensives and workshops for universities and cultural
centers across the United States and in Germany.
Michelle
Gibson’s choreographic works include New Orleans Second Line: Takin It To The
Roots performed at the American Dance Festival summer 2011, Mufaro's
Beautiful Daughters with the Dallas Children's Theatre, currently on tour; "Krump" choreographed and
accompanied by the LoneStar Wind Orchestra at the Meyerson Center; Texas
Educators Music Conference in San Antonio accompanying the Texas University
Orchestra; 2008 South Dallas Dance Festival premiering excerpts from I Made It, But Some Didn't, a tribute to
souls survivors of Hurricane Katrina; the Dallas premiere of Evolution: Honoring, recognizing, and
uplifting women of color and Sisters
of the Yam which premiered at South Dallas Cultural Center in 2012.
Michelle N. Gibson, choreographer, instructor, and performing artist,
received her B.F.A in Dance from Tulane University and her MFA in Dance and
Performance Studies from Hollins University/American Dance Festival at Duke
University graduate program. Relocated to Dallas, Texas after Katrina, New
Orleans native Michelle studied at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts,
the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center, the American Dance Festival, Jacob's
Pillow, and the Urban Bush Women's, "Walking with Pearl Primus"
intensive. Her motion picture credits include having been cast as a featured
dancer in the Academy Award nominated film, Interview
With a Vampire, the Academy Award winning film Ray, and the movie Just My
Luck with Lindsay Lohan.
Ms.
Gibson, faculty member with the American Dance Festival six week school
intensive held at Duke University, is also the founder and Artistic Director of
Exhibit Dance Collective. Michelle is currently teaching at Brookhaven College and
Mountain View College in Dallas, Texas. She holds an artist in residence position
with the Ashe' Cultural Arts Center in New Orleans and leads a resident dance
company at the South Dallas Cultural Center. Michelle is choreographer for Six
Flags/WOW Entertainment Dallas TX and a member of Drum Café. She previously taught
dance for the Dallas Independent School District teaching grades 9-12 and has
conducted numerous dance intensives and workshops for universities and cultural
centers across the United States and in Germany.
Michelle
Gibson’s choreographic works include New Orleans Second Line: Takin It To The
Roots performed at the American Dance Festival summer 2011, Mufaro's
Beautiful Daughters with the Dallas Children's Theatre, currently on tour; "Krump" choreographed and
accompanied by the LoneStar Wind Orchestra at the Meyerson Center; Texas
Educators Music Conference in San Antonio accompanying the Texas University
Orchestra; 2008 South Dallas Dance Festival premiering excerpts from I Made It, But Some Didn't, a tribute to
souls survivors of Hurricane Katrina; the Dallas premiere of Evolution: Honoring, recognizing, and
uplifting women of color and Sisters
of the Yam which premiered at South Dallas Cultural Center in 2012.
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