Bebe Miller
Credit: Joanna Eldredge Morrissey
Bebe Miller Company’s practice includes individual and collective choreographic contributions from the dance artists, whose creative insights and energies are an integral part of each work. Her 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 lives on Vashon Island, WA.
