MISSION Statement
GREYZONE is a performance project that blends dance, visual arts, and time-based media. Producing works for film and stage, the project uncovers non-narrative theatricality and highlights the rituals embedded in dance training and performance. GREYZONE’s process explores how we can both honor and ask questions of Western dance histories. GREYZONE was founded by and is under the direction of Lindy Fines and Justin Fines.
ABOUT GREYZONE
Lindy Fines is choreographer and artistic director of GREYZONE, an NYC-based multimedia dance project that she cofounded with creative director Justin Fines. Lindy was awarded a 2024 Choreography Commission from New York State Council on the Arts to complete and present AMPLITUDE, which premiered September 2024 at Mark Morris Dance Center. An excerpt of AMPLITUDE was performed at the 14th St Y Theater in October 2023 as part of Pioneers Go East Collective’s Crossroads series. GREYZONE is a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in Choreography (NYFA).
The Oklahoma International Dance Festival presented GREYZONE’s premiere of ASSEMBLY in 2021 (Inaugural Artist-in-Residence, University of Central Oklahoma). Featuring music by Sivan Jacobovitz and costumes by Victoria Yee Howe and House of 950, ASSEMBLY was supported by The Harkness Foundation for Dance, New Music USA, a 2021 Foundation for Contemporary Arts (FCA) Emergency Grant, and a 2020 FCA Emergency Grant (COVID-19 Fund). In 2022, an excerpt of the work was presented by the 92NY Future Dance Festival, and the NYC premiere of ASSEMBLY was performed at Paul Taylor Studios.
GREYZONE collaborations include dance film RIFT (92NY; Pioneers Go East Collective’s Out-FRONT! Fest) with director Lia Bonfilio, dance film PENUMBRA with composer Steve Hauschildt (Nevada Museum of Art; 17 screenings worldwide), BLOOM (APAP, City Center Studios; University Settlement; Dance Gallery at Ailey Citigroup Theater), DRIFT with visual artist Maia Ruth Lee (Abrons Arts Center, supported by an FCA Emergency Grant), MATTER CHANGES HANDS (Movement Research at the Judson Church, Brooklyn Ballet) dance film QUEENS DUETS (5 screenings worldwide), and VEHICLE with illustrator Mike Perry.
GREYZONE has had additional residencies at GALLIM (Moving Women), MOTiVE Brooklyn, Bethany Arts Community (NY), The Croft (MI), Socrates Sculpture Park (Queens, NY), and New Dance Alliance (NYC). Lindy earned a BFA from the University of Oklahoma and trained as a four-time merit scholarship recipient with Merce Cunningham. She has recently taught workshops and classes at Mark Morris Dance Center and Gibney Dance Center.
Photo by Benjamin Cheney
STATEMENT OF DIVERSITY, JUSTICE, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION
GREYZONE aims to center the voices, bodies, identities, and experiences of women, gender-expansive people, and people of color. We strive to be an anti-racist organization in our organizational and dance-making practices, and seek to provide a working environment that is safe, equitable, and inclusive. In our dance-making, we aim to transform historically oppressive and exclusionary Western classical dance lineages. Together with our collaborators and audiences, we hope to envision new communities that are affirming and representative of all involved.