A History can be viewed as the evidence and performance of the creative conversation embedded in the last decade of the company's work. Long time BMC collaborators Angie Hauser and Darrell Jones appear live and virtually, creating a dynamic theatre-based performance and archeological inquiry. Their nuanced dancing relationship under Bebe Miller's direction, with dramturgy by Talvin Wilks and media by Lily Skove, is an opportunity to view how the past leads us forward. The performance, coupled with a media installation by Maya Ciarrocchi, offers a glimpse into the thematic journey that has led the company to the present moment: A History.
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Choreography and Direction: Bebe Miller
Performers: Angie Hauser and Darrell Jones
Dramaturgy: Talvin Wilks
Lighting Design: Michael Mazzola
Set Design: Mimi Lien
Sound Design: Michael Wall and Darren Morze
Installation: "Moving Portraits" by Maya Ciarrocchi
Production Supervisor: Ryan Osborn
The Bebe Miller Company appears by arrangement with:
PMG Arts Management
3806 Chippenham Rd. | Durham, NC 27707-5078 | 919/419-1411
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Bebe Miller Company's A History was commissioned by the Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University through its Wexner Center Artist Residency Award program and the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. A History was also developed with support from Wesleyan University's Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance. The creation of A History was made possible with support from The Ohio State University's College of Arts and Humanities Grants for Research and Creative Activity and the Department of Dance, as well as by the Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute, and the Department of Women's Studies and their Coca-Cola Critical Difference for Women grant program. Also, by the New England Foundation for the Arts' National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and additional funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the MetLife Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.The presentation of Bebe Miller Company's A History was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts' National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and additional funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Additional support for Bebe Miller Company has been provided by the Multi-Arts Production Fund, a program of Creative Capital Foundation supported by The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Bebe Miller Company and A History are supported by the National Endowment for the Arts.The work's development was co-produced as part of The Forsythe Company's Motion Bank: TWO Project and the Advanced Computing Center for Arts and Design at The Ohio State University. Motion Bank is funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation, the Hessian Ministry for Science and the Arts, the Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain and Ms. Susanne Klatten. Funding for A History was also provided by the United States Artists' USA Projects donation program.
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