Choreographer, Cultural Ambassador, Healer, Professor, Mother, and Performing Artist, Michelle N. Gibson, also affectionately known as Mz. G, received her BFA in Dance from Tulane University and her MFA from Hollins University/American Dance Festival at Duke University. Gibson’s teaching and chorographic practice comprises all genres of the African Diaspora, Contemporary Afro Modern, Afro Funk, Jazz, and her own New Orleans Second Line Aesthetic. Her current projects involve sharing her aesthetic and New Orleans culture through a series of workshops she’s coined The New Orleans Original BuckShop, LLC.
In 2024, Gibson’s work Takin’ it To The Roots was featured in New York City at The Joyce Theater during the Jazz at the Joyce American Symposium with the American Dance Platform. She also premiered a new work on Chicago’s premiere afro-contemporary company, Red Clay Dance Company, entitled Her Womb: Crucified, Conceived, Crescent, Congo… The Gathering. She was the resident artist in Wales, London with the African cultural organization Laku Neg, Indianapolis, IN with the first Black dance festival—Neon Black Dance Festival, Lawrence University, WI, and the Ohio State University to set work on their prestigious dance department. She partnered with CaraMia Theatre Company’s 5th Annual International Theatre Festival, Yemaya Flamenco, as director and performer, and hosted her 4th annual 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 in Dallas, TX.
In addition to being a 15-year faculty member with the American Dance Festival, Gibson also served on the dance faculty at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Dallas for four years. Currently, she serves as a Professor of Practice in Dance at Southern Methodist University.
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