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. Named a Master of African American Choreography by the Kennedy Center in 2005, Bebe is an inaugural Doris Duke Artist Award recipient, a Movement Research honoree, and a Danspace Project Gala honoree. She has received four New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Awards, the David R. White Award from New York Live Arts, and honorary doctorates from Ursinus College and Franklin & Marshall College. Bebe is a Distinguished Professor Emerita at Ohio State University, and currently lives on Vashon Island, WA. bebemillercompany.org
Bria Bacon is a performing artist, predominantly trained in dance, holding passions and gifts in writing, sound-making, and theater. She has worked with Stefanie Batten Bland, ChameckiLerner, Wendell Gray II, Joanna Kotze, Donna Uchizono, Johnnie Cruise Mercer, Stephen Petronio Company, and Kyle Marshall Choreography, as well as Beth Gill and Rachel Comey in NYFW and Company Christoph Winkler in Berlin. Recently, she was cast in Life and Trust, as a contributing choreographer, performer, and originator of the role “Emma.” Currently, she works with Reggie Wilson/FHPG, Sally Silvers, and Sweat Variant (Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born). All praise to the angels, ancestors, and folx within her village.
Hearn Gadbois’ love of percussion dates to when, growing up in The Land of Ten Thousand Lakes, he spent hours throwing stones of varying sizes into water at different velocities, for love of the sound. Playing and making hand drums was a logical next step; his curiosity led him through a variety of world rhythmic, instrumental, and sonic traditions that continues to this day. He has collaborated with Patti Smith, Yoko Ono and Susanne Vega, composed for and contributed to numerous dance and film scores, and recorded five albums of his own music, the latest a retrospective entitled RARA AVIS, released in 2022 by the Spanish Abstracke label.
Jasmine Hearn, born and raised on occupied Akokisa lands (Houston, TX), is an interdisciplinary artist, teacher, doula, performer, and choreographer. Named one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch” (2025), Jasmine is a recipient of a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award (2023), Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Rome Prize in Design with collaborator Athena Kokoronis of Domestic Performance Agency (2023), Creative Capital Award (2022), Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship (2019), and NY Dance and Performance “Bessie” Awards for Outstanding Performer (2021 & 2017 with the cast of skeleton architecture). They have collaborated with Dream the Combine, Bill T. Jones, Saul Williams, Solange Knowles, Alisha B. Wormsley, Okwui Okpokwasili, Marjani Forté-Saunders, Tsedaye Makonnen, Holly Bass, Sandra Organ Dance Company, Urban Bush Women, David Dorfman Dance, Hélène Simoneau Danse, Staycee Pearl dance project, and Dance Alloy Theater.
K.J. Holmes, independent dance artist exploring improvisation as process and performance since 1981. Collaborators include dancers Simone Forti, Lisa Nelson, Steve Paxton, poet Julie Carr, drummer Jeremy Carlstedt, trumpeter Roy Campbell, Jr.; presented in NYC at Roulette, the Chocolate Factory Theater, Danspace Project, Abrons Art Center, Vision Jazz Festival, nationally and internationally. Performed with Miguel Gutierrez, Xavier Le Roy, Steve Paxton, Matthew Barney, Karinne Keithley Seyers; assisted Simone Forti in restaging her Dance Constructions at MoMA. Developing Blu/print, a dance/music/theater work begun through a grant from the New York State Choreographers Initiative with the mentorships of composer/instrumentalist Henry Threadgill. Adjunct professor at NYU/ETW and teaches through Movement Research. Many thanks to my voice teacher Richard Armstrong, and to Bebe and these amazing (truly) performers for an incredible experience reimagining Vespers. kjholmes.info
Shayla-Vie Jenkins is a Philadelphia-based performer, maker, educator, poetry lover, writer, and mama. She is grateful for her life in dance, having performed for a decade with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company and in inspiring projects with artists such as Faye Driscoll, Susan Marshall, Moriah Evans, David Gordon, Sage Ni’Ja Whitson, and Yara Travieso. Jenkins was an Assistant Professor in the School of Dance at the University of the Arts and is currently guest teaching at Bennington College. Her creative research explores the intersection of Blackness and somatic presence, with her choreographic works embodying performance as a ritual act of mourning and catharsis.
Chloe London is a performer and choreographer from New York City. She has an MFA in Performance & Choreography from Smith College and is a Dance Lecturer at Mount Holyoke College. Her choreography has been presented by Movement Research at the Judson Church, Dixon Place, Triskelion Arts, School of Contemporary Dance and Thought, and Battery Park Dance Festival. She has performed with Vanessa Anspaugh, Alex Davis, and Gabrielle Revlock, among others. She currently dances for Barbie Diewald, Maddy Sher, and works collaboratively with Angie Hauser. Chloe is presenting her first evening-length commissioned work on April 10–12, 2025 at Triskelion Arts in Brooklyn, NY. She is honored to be dancing with Bebe Miller Company as part of Vespers, Reimagined.
Stacy Matthew Spence is a NYC-based dance artist. His choreography has been commissioned by The High Line with visual artist Ronny Quevedo, Danspace Project, The New School, Ishmael Houston-Jones’s Platform 2012: Parallels and Tisch School of the Arts. Stacy has performed in works by Margaret Peak as part of Jason Moran’s Whitney Biennial show BLEED, Deborah Hay as part of Ralph Lemon’s Some Sweet Day at MOMA, Joanna Kotze and others. His work I am, here; Here with us; Where we find ourselves (2024) premiered at Danspace and was remounted for Danspace and New York Live Arts in 2025. Stacy danced with The Trisha Brown Dance Company (1997–2006), was Education Director (2018–2021), and continues teaching and re-staging with TBDC. He has taught at Juilliard, Barnard, Tisch, Manhattan Marymount College, London Contemporary Dance School, Centre National de Danse Contemporaine, Movement Research and elsewhere. Stacy teaches at The New School.
Angie Hauser is a “Bessie” Award-winning dancer whose work is grounded in improvisation and performance. She is a principal collaborator with Bebe Miller Company contributing to the work as a performer, writer, and choreographic collaborator since 2000. Other dancemaking projects include collaborations with dance artists Chris Aiken, Darrell Jones, Jennifer Nugent, and Kathleen Hermesdorf. She has taught dance, improvisation, and choreography throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and in South America. She received her MFA in dance from the Ohio State University. She is currently a Professor at Smith College where she directs the Graduate Program in Dance.
Niall Jones is an artist, performer and teacher based in New York City. Niall works within a constellation of curiosities, obsessions and practices that move across dance, performance, sound, text, photography and video. Niall constructs immersive, liminal sites that attend to the sensual, collective registers of fiction, dis/order, dis/placement, and in/completeness.