Bebe Miller Company: Vespers, Reimagined (2025)
Thursday, March 27 | 7:30PM
Friday, March 28 | 7:30PM
Saturday, March 29 | 7:30PM
Bebe Miller launched her choreographic career at Danspace Project with the premiere of her breathtaking solo Vespers in 1982 as part of the seminal Parallels, a series curated by Ishmael Houston-Jones and featuring an extraordinary group of young Black choreographers who were working “in the parallel worlds of Black America and new dance.” After Parallels, Miller went on to a brilliant 40-year career and toured extensively with her company throughout the United States. She is the recipient of numerous awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship, four Bessie Awards, and a Doris Duke Award.
As a part of Danspace’s 50th anniversary, Miller has been invited by Associate Curator Seta Morton to reimagine her 1982 solo on a group of five young dance artists.
Performers include: Chloe London, Shayla-Vie Jenkins, Bria Bacon, Stacy Matthew Spence, and Jasmine Hearn.
“Returning to Vespers now, reimagined with these artists, has been a kind of archeological dig into how we’ve all arrived at our various understandings of the art, the currencies, as well as the physics of dancing.” —Bebe Miller
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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 a Professor 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.