Bebe Miller Company & Susan Rethorst

Bebe Miller (Artistic Director/Choreographer, Bebe Miller Company) has received four New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Awards and support from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, Guggenheim Foundation and many others. She was a United States Artists Ford Fellow, received one of the first Doris Duke Artists Awards and a New York Live Arts’ 2013 David White Award, and was a 2015 Movement Research Honoree. Bebe Miller Company was formed in 1985; since then, Miller has created more than 50 dance works for the company that have been performed in nearly 400 engagements worldwide. BMC has been commissioned and presented by leading venues including 651 ARTS, BAM Next Wave, DTW, Jacob’s Pillow, Joyce Theater, PICA, REDCAT, Walker Art Center and Wexner Center for the Arts. A Distinguished Professor in Dance at The Ohio State University’s College of Arts and Humanities from 2000–2016, Miller received an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Ursinus College in 2009. Since 1975, Susan Rethorst has created dances out of New York City, Amsterdam and Philadelphia. Rethorst’s work has been presented by The Museum of Modern Art, The Kitchen, Dance Theater Workshop, Danspace Project, The Downtown Whitney Museum, among others, as well as at various dance theaters, universities, and festivals throughout the U.S. Internationally her work has been produced by The Holland Festival, Spazio Zero Rome, The Kunsthalle Basel, The Aix-en-Provence Festival, among others. She is the recipient of numerous awards including a Guggenheim, an Alpert and a Pew Fellowship. Her book A Choreographic Mind: Autobodygraphical Writings was named one of the Best Books of 2012 by New Yorker Magazine.
Since 1975, Susan Rethorst has created dances out of New York City, Amsterdam and Philadelphia. Rethorst’s work has been presented by The Museum of Modern Art, The Kitchen, Dance Theater Workshop, Danspace Project, The Downtown Whitney Museum, among others, as well as at various dance theaters, universities, and festivals throughout the U.S. Internationally her work has been produced by The Holland Festival, Spazio Zero Rome, The Kunsthalle Basel, The Aix-en-Provence Festival, among others. She is the recipient of numerous awards including a Guggenheim, an Alpert and a Pew Fellowship. Her book A Choreographic Mind: Autobodygraphical Writings was named one of the Best Books of 2012 by New Yorker Magazine.

The Making Room
FEB 21-24, 7:30PM