Nimbus Dance Works
242 Montgomery street #B
Jersey City, NJ 07302
Phone: 201.377.0718
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Nimbus Dance Works focuses its work on the intersection between high-level concert dance performance and innovative ways of involving communities and audiences. Nimbus creates and presents concert dance that is both exciting and inspiring from a performance perspective, and also relevant and engaging for a broad spectrum of people: project participants, partnering organizations and institutions, and the community at large. Strongly rooted in Jersey City, Nimbus Dance Works presents dance performances and programs to diverse audiences locally and has been presented throughout New Jersey, New England and in New York City. Nimbus has established a reputation for creating new work that emphasizes collaboration. Collaborations have included: "Pastoral Wind-Up" -- a multi-media work that employs video projections by noted New Jersey artists Andrew Wilkinson and Monica Broz; "Love Is Worse Than Sickness", a dance/theater piece created in collaboration with J City Theater, a Jersey City theater company; and "The Lazarus Project", an improvisational solo created with Violist Amelia Hollander. Nimbus Dance Works' dancers are chosen for their technical prowess and artistic maturity and include some of the most respected concert dance performers in the state.
Nimbus Dance Works actively explores ways to make dance performance relevant to today's audiences "Memo," premiered in 2006, has emerged as a signature work for the company and a prime example of Nimbus' mission to forge ties with the community. Inspired by the dancers' personal memories, "Memo" is performed by the company as a professional performance piece; however, it can also be configured as an integrated work that involves an all ages cast drawn from the community itself as well as the resources of local institutions such as museums, libraries, and historical societies. In 2008, Nimbus Dance Works will debut a new program in the Jersey City Public Schools, "JC Grooves", which aims to build involvement in dance at the personal and community level. The program will combine intensive dance training, performance opportunities and exposure to the performing arts to students from throughout the Jersey City Public School District.
