Creative Process – Miller

photo by Julieta Cervantes

This class is for choreographers to investigate strategies and decision-making in their creative research, or TSTSIS: Tricky Situations That Seem Impossible to Solve. As dance making is a form of research, we’ll look at questions raised in movement as well as the context you’re creating: What are you investigating? What are the boundaries of your comfort zone? How much further can your habits take you? What’s your tone of action/ directing/ attention? We will work on solo and group process, and participants will work as directors, makers and dancers.

Bebe Miller, a native New Yorker, first performed her choreography at NYC’s Dance Theater Workshop in 1978; she formed Bebe Miller Company in 1985. Her choreography has been performed in venues across the country and internationally in Europe and the African continent, and been commissioned by Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, Oregon Ballet Theatre, Boston Ballet, Philadanco, and the UK’s Phoenix Dance Company, among others, and much of the Company’s repertory has been presented or developed at the Bates Dance Festival. She has been honored with four New York Dance and Performance ‘Bessie’ awards, fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Ohio Arts Council, was named a United States Artists Ford Fellow in 2010, and has been a professor in Dance at The Ohio State University since 2000. Last year Tracing History: Bebe Miller, a curated exhibition featuring her choreographic career, was on view at Ohio State’s Urban Arts Space. Bebe was named as one of the inaugural class of Doris Duke Artists, a program of the Doris Duke Foundation’s Performing Artist Awards in 2012.