About Bebe Miller

Bebe Miller’s vision of dance resides in her faith in the moving body as a record of thought, experience, and beauty. Her aesthetic relies on the interplay of a work’s idea, its physicality, and the contributions of Bebe Miller Company members to fashion its singular voice. Bebe formed Bebe Miller Company in 1985 to pursue her interest in finding a physical language for the human condition. Since then, she has created more than 50 dance works for BMC that have been performed worldwide. She has taught workshops and received commissions from Phoenix Dance Company in Leeds, England; Groupe Experimental de Danse Contemporaine in Martinique; PATH Dance Company in Johannesburg and JazzArt in Capetown, RSA; Sbrit Dance Company in Asmara, Eritrea; as well as a host of colleges and universities across the country. Her choreography has been performed by A.I.M by Kyle Abraham, Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, Oregon Ballet Theater, Boston Ballet, Philadanco, Repertory Dance Theater, Chamber Dance Company and others.

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 where she collaborated with OSU’s Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design and the Department of Dance in exploring motion capture, animation and digital documentation in her creative practice. She is currently living in a forest on Vashon Island, WA.

About Bebe Miller Company

Founded in 1985, Bebe Miller Company (BMC) supports the artistic vision of choreographer/ director Bebe Miller in creative, cross-disciplinary explorations and in creating and performing new works. Miller has created more than 50 dance works for BMC which have been performed in over 400 engagements worldwide. BMC has been commissioned and presented by leading venues including 651 ARTS, BAM’s Next Wave Series, New York Live Arts, Jacob’s Pillow, The Joyce Theater, PICA, REDCAT, Walker Art Center and Wexner Center for the Arts. BMC creates new works during intensive residencies that bring national collaborating artists together over several years for exploration, rehearsals and community activities. Seeking to expand the language of dance, the Company’s creative work encompasses choreography, writing, film, video and digital media. After several decades of focusing primarily on its own dance-making, BMC, in acknowledging the matrix of changes in the dance field itself, seeks to be supportive of peer and emerging artists as well as continuing to create new work. The Solo/Duo Dancing Project is a choreographic mentoring program focused on creating the conditions for cultivating creativity. Digital initiatives such as two ebooks, Dance Fort: A History and How Dancing is Built: The Making of In A Rhythm, and the themakingroom.org project offer an in-depth delivery of our creative practice. Public availability of this media allows for access to our creative processes in new formats to a broad public—helping to engage and cultivate new audiences and offer platforms for exchange between working artists. BMC also convenes gatherings to facilitate inter-artist dialogue and exchange, such as Vault (vault-project.org) and the Experimentation to Execution: An Archive of Practice convenings facilitated by NCCAkron.