Grace Gibbons

Grace Gibbons is a dancer, educator, choreographer, and arts leader based in Jamestown, New York. She began her serious dance training at the age of 13, initially focusing on ballet before expanding into multiple forms through pre-professional training and performance opportunities. Her background includes summer training and performance experience with Cincinnati Ballet, Ballet Magnificat!, Sovereign Ballet, Studio Dance Conservatory, Chautauqua Regional Youth Ballet, and the Mercyhurst University B.F.A. dance program. A longtime student of Studio Dance Conservatory, Grace stepped into leadership of the school as its Artistic Director in 2026.

Grace has performed with Sukanya Burman Dance in a range of community and festival settings, including The Bayadere: The Past, Present, and the Future at the inaugural Jamestown Dance Festival in 2024 and community-based performances such as World Refugee Day in Jamestown in 2025. She also returned to the Jamestown Dance Festival in 2025 as a featured regional artist, presenting her own original choreography as part of the Regional Artist Showcase. Her work as a performer, choreographer, and educator is rooted in a deep appreciation for the connection between dancer and audience, and she approaches dance as both a technical discipline and a fleeting, expressive art form. As she has shared, “Dance is not the art of movement. It is the art of moment. Dance finds the beauty in the pause between the movements. It is the transient connection between audience and dancer that makes dance so remarkable.”