About

About the company’s mission video

Marie-Christine Giordano Dance (MCGD) uses dance as an expressive, healing, and unifying art form to convey messages of life affirmation, beauty, equity, and community—beyond the limits of language and cultural differences. Through performance, teaching, and outreach, our work fosters connection and shared experience. Rooted in a distinctive training method, our choreographic approach explores the rich physical and emotional textures of movement—inviting nuance, tension, and fluidity in a deeply kinesthetic way that resonates physically with the audience.

2025: Esquisses one-night-only performance on June 20 at the breathtaking Historic Chapel in Green-Wood—a Gothic Revival landmark designed by Warren & Wetmore and completed in 1913.Through raw and exquisite movement, dancers embody the contrast between the permanence of stone and the ephemeral fluidity of dance, set against the striking backdrop of the grey stones.

2021: Citizen of the World— It is an emotional response to a very important time for America and the World. The investiture ceremony of 46th President Joseph Biden.— Worked on exclusively virtually with dancers from their own homes and locations.

2017: Et Maintenant-- 15th Anniversary full evening creation premiered at BAM Fisher, Fishman Space, Brooklyn, NY, June 2-3

2014: Untitled -- Commissioned by Ecole La Planche,  Espace Nuithonie, Fribourg, Switzerland

2013: Test — performance was part of Jodi Kaplan & Associates/Booking Dance showcases at the Association of Arts Presenters (APAP) conference, The Allen Room in Frederic P. Rose Hall, home of Jazz at Lincoln Center, New York

2012: In and Out/Up Close and Personal (site-specific performance) — Château de Penthes, Musée des Suisses dans le Monde/Museum of the Swiss Abroad, Geneva, Switzerland,  October 4–6 .

2012: In and Out (world premiere) — Danspace Project, St. Mark’s Church,
New York, June 7–9

2011: In and Out (work in progress) — BAX

2009: Ikiru (To Live) — presented by Chez Bushwick, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

2007: Spin Meditation in Progress — BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange

2005: Nurtured or Neutered? — Co-produced by Swiss Peaks and Tribeca Performing Arts Center, New York

 2004: Untitled #3 — White Wave John Ryan Theater, DUMBO Dance Festival,
Brooklyn, N.Y., and Swiss Embassy, Washington

2004: Solo for a Few — Debaun Center for Peforming Arts, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, N.J. 

2003: Solo for Two — Danspace Project, St. Mark’s Church, New York

2002: Eve, Eros et les Autres — commissioned by l'Espace Moncor, Villars-sur-Glâne, Switzerland

Established in 2002, Marie-Christine Giordano Dance (MCGD) has created ten evening-length works, several shorter repertory pieces, and commissions for the Joffrey Ballet School’s summer intensives. The company has performed at leading NYC venues including BAM Fisher, St. Mark’s Church, 92Y’s Harkness Dance Center, Tribeca Performing Arts Center, and Frederick P. Rose Hall, as well as BAX, Triskelion Arts, and White Wave’s DUMBO Dance Festival in Brooklyn. National and international appearances include the Debaun Auditorium (NJ), the Swiss Embassy (Washington, D.C.), and venues in Switzerland.

MCGD operates from its Sunset Park studio, where it holds company classes, rehearsals, and performances. Its teaching is grounded in an idiosyncratic movement method developed by Artistic Director Marie-Christine Giordano. While singular in its approach, the method stands on the shoulders of classical ballet, Graham technique, and other modern dance traditions—integrating their foundations into a personal, structurally specific language driven by internal impulse and spatial awareness. From 2007 to 2016, MCGD ran an after-school program at P.S. 24 in partnership with PAZ (Peace from A to Z). Between 2017 and 2025, the company reached approximately 7,700 students in underserved Brooklyn schools through in-school lecture-demonstrations and movement workshops—offered free of charge and designed to foster inclusion and self-expression through dance.

A recipient of the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs Cultural Development Fund since 2007 and the 2014 Community Arts Leadership Initiative, MCGD continues to grow its artistic and community impact.

In June 2025, the company will premiere Esquisses, a site-specific work created for the historic Green-Wood in Greenwood Heights. Featuring three dancers and a live musician, the piece embraces the raw textures of the 1913 stone chapel to offer an immersive, meditative experience.