What it takes to start your own dance company

Gabrielle Johnson is the founder, director and choreographer of Gabrielle Johnson and Artists. Armed with a BFA from Alonzo King LINES Ballet at Dominican University, and an MFA from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Johnson started her own company, and has been popping up all over the New York dance scene ever since. In a time that’s been particularly financially difficult for the arts, and in the New York market infamous for its quantity and intensity of competition,