WORKSHOPS:
“The New Orleans Original BuckShop LLC”.
ORIGINAL WORKS:
- “Takin’ it To The Roots”, a work supported by the National Performance Network/Visual Artists Network’s Creation Fund “Displaced Yet Rebirth” performed by Dallas Black Dance Theatre, Origins of Life on Earth with the Ashe’ Cultural Arts Center
- “Voices of Congo Square”, a work focused on the rich culture and history of the Black New Orleans Mardi Gras Indians. This work premiered in 2018 at the Black Dance USA conference at the Sun Theatre in St Louis, Missouri, and the Orpheum Theater in New Orleans.
CURATED PROJECTS/ COLLABORATIONS:
- Arts Walk West, hosted by the West Dallas Chamber of Commerce and AT&T (2019)
- Duke University Dance Department (2020)
- University of Florida Dance and College of Arts, Sankofa Talks with Caribbean Cultural Center, Black Nature Conversation Series, and a virtual interview with University of Southern California dance historian and ethnographer E. Moncell Durden, Intangible Roots, and the Black Artist Collective (2020)
- Culture, Brass, and Jazz in the Park Festival as a partnership between The New Orleans Original BuckShop and ArtsBridge Powered by Toyota, a community arts program of the AT&T Performing Arts Center (2021-2023)
HONORS:
- Invited to be Grand Marshal for the Ascona Jazz Festival in Switzerland where she led Second Line parades with the community and conducted teaching workshops.
- Gibson also was honored, as an alumnus, to be a part of the esteemed Jacob’s Pillow 90th Anniversary Season performing her one-woman show “Taken’ It To The Roots”. The performance was accompanied by Adonis Rose & NOJO 7, the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra, Jawara Simon, and Alexandro Perez and garnered her a feature article in the New York Times.
- Honored to spend her 14th year on faculty with the American Dance Festival’s Pre-Professional Intensive at Duke University
RESIDENCIES:
- Faculty member with the American Dance Festival for 14 years
Dance faculty at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Dallas for four years - Taught movement-therapy workshops with seniors in facilities throughout the Dallas Metroplex using a curriculum created while serving as a resident artist at the Ashé Cultural Arts Center in her hometown of New Orleans.
- Professor of Practice in Dance at Southern Methodist University
Guest lecturer and instructor for Black Women Embodied Aesthetics Symposium at Duke University in Spring 2023 Intangible Roots - Professional Development Summer Intensive at Glorya Kaufman School of Dance at University of Southern California
- Featured artists in Moving Together, the official documentary selected for Dance on Camera at Lincoln Center premiering in February 2023
- Artist in residence with Columbia College Chicago, the Caribbean Museum Center and Frederiksted USVI (2023) Journey & practice to Trinidad with New Waves Institute (2023)
- Guest choreographer with Red Clay Dance Company for La Femme Dance Festival (2024)