Bebe Miller Company in-residence
In-residence November 2024
Danspace Project hosts the renowned Bebe Miller Company for a NYC residency focusing on Miller’s 1982 Vespers. The piece premiered at Danspace Project as part of the seminal Parallels, a series curated by Ishmael Houston-Jones and later revisited at Danspace Project in 2012. A new generation of performing artists will rehearse with Miller for a reimagined performance of Vespers, along with an open rehearsal and public conversation on the piece’s creation and recollection. In addition, Miller will facilitate Experimentation to Execution: An Archive of Practice, a NCCAkron-supported convening of invited practitioners.
Residencies are not open to the public.
Bebe Miller’s vision of dance and performance resides in her faith in the moving body as a record of thought, experience and sheer beauty. She has collaborated with artists, composers, writers, and designers, along with the dancers who share her studio practice and from whom she’s learned what dancing can reveal. A native New Yorker, she formed Bebe Miller Company in 1985. Since then, the Company has been commissioned by Brooklyn Academy of Music’s NEXT WAVE Festival, The Joyce Theater, Wexner Center for the Arts, On The Boards, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Theater Artaud, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Bates Dance Festival, Dance Theater Workshop, New York Live Arts and Danspace Project, and has performed worldwide. The Company’s work encompasses choreography, writing and film, along with digital archive products that share their creative practice. Bebe is aProfessor Emerita at Ohio State University, and though her home is in Columbus, OH she is spending a year in a forest on Vashon Island, WA.