Modern Repertory – Miller

photo by Julieta Cervantes

Our underlying investigation will be: who are we as dancers and how do we use that information? When we’re face-to-face making dances in the studio, how (why?) do we create the alchemical exchange that allows for collaboration? Using creative tools and scores from Bebe Miller Company’s latest work, A History, we will develop a new work exploring these questions. We will work with improvisation, set material, video and audio to help mine the creative process. Dancers should be skilled in improvisation, partnering and ready to engage. The final work will be performed in the Festival Finale. All participants must be enrolled in the Modern V class.

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.