Photo by Simon Wachter.

Mission

GALLIM is a home for the exchange of movement wisdom through the three pillars of art-making, education, and community-building.

vision

GALLIM envisions a world where creativity, movement, and art is accessible, valued, and serving its ancient role of communicating the experience of our times.

COMPANY BIO

GALLIM is a home for the exchange of movement wisdom through the three pillars of art-making, education, and community-building. Founded in 2007 by groundbreaking choreographer Andrea Miller, GALLIM nurtures creative careers and stimulates the imagination of worldwide audiences through performance, education, and innovation in dance. 

GALLIM’s critically acclaimed performance history of national and international performance seasons includes interdisciplinary dance theater and site-specific works as well as collaborations in film, theater, fashion, music, and brands. GALLIM’s performances and touring include renowned venues such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Met Breuer, The Guggenheim Museum, Lincoln Center, The Kennedy Center, Alice Tully Hall, The Joyce, BAM, Jacob’s Pillow, Spoleto USA, Sadler's Wells, Royal Opera House, V&A London, Théâtre National de Chaillot de Paris, Grand Theatre de la Ville de Luxembourg, Tanz Bremen, Teatre Grec in Barcelona, Teatros Del Canal, Frieze Festival, Art Basel, Philip Johnson’s Glass House, Grace Farms, Hermès, Calvin Klein, Lacoste, and Vogue. Film credits include dir. Xavier Dolan with actors Jessica Chastain and Kit Harington, dir. Ariel Shulman and Henry Joost, Ben Stamper, and Bat-sheva Guez. 

Miller’s recent commissions include the pandemic responsive YOU ARE HERE, a sculpture, sound, and performance installation for Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, as well as New York City Ballet, English National Ballet, Martha Graham Dance Company, A.I.M by Kyle Abraham, Ailey II, and The Juilliard School.

GALLIM continues to advance its dedication to movement education and community building through the GALLIM School of Movement, Moving Artist Residencies for early career and parent movement artists. The GALLIM School of Movement is a nexus of students, educators, and artists sharing movement knowledge, creative methodologies, and expression through free and low cost studies in dance training, dancemaking, the collaborative process, film for dance, and professional development.

GALLIM dances on the traditional and unceded land of the Canarsie and Munsee Lenape People and expresses gratitude for the stewardship of this land throughout the generations.

Gallim Dance Company Inc, is a 501c3 non-profit organization.

Values Manifesto

COLLABORATION

Pursuing work that honors diversity, inclusion, equity and access is the path to meaningful art.

MOVEMENT

Everything we do is movement-based; it is the vehicle for our expression and reveals things we otherwise do not have access to. It is the most direct channel to each being’s complexity and uniqueness, and ultimately leads to freedom.

CREATIVE PROCESS

We honor the making of what did not exist before. When art is happening, the process is the work, the work is the process.

INQUIRY & SEARCH FOR MEANING

Asking questions, embracing the speed of learning feeds our search for meaning. Inquiry can face inwards or outwards, and ultimately has flow. It rejects formula and logic; it does not conform to the laws of this world; rather, through alchemy, it provides the chance for transcendence.

INTERDISCIPLINARITY

Art is not defined by a single genre. It draws on different inspirations and finds its own medium, its own combustion. “Inter” cross-pollinates forms; we are “disciplined” in our commitment to deep rigor and expertise.

DIVERSITY Equity and inclusion

GALLIM is committed to actively and intentionally operating as an anti-bias, anti-racist institution. As such, we promote policies, practices, and programs that work to dismantle systemic racism. We know art is a powerful instrument for social justice. It is a means for people to share history, culture, and perspectives, celebrate differences, challenge assumptions, and find common ground. GALLIM is dedicated to advancing anti-bias, anti-racism work as we grow. We understand that this work is an iterative journey. We will continue to evolve our strategies in collaboration with our communities to remain relevant and impactful