Events

Contemporary Movement and Improvisation Workshop
with Amanda K. Miller
Saturday, February 16
1:00-3:00 pm
at CDF
Everyone is invited; no cost.

For artists of all persuasions; ages 17 and up.
RSVP: 205-870-0073 or to shellie@childrensdancefoundation.org

In this workshop, participants will learn to develop new and individual forms of expression in movement.Using various techniques of improvisation and articulation, participants will break open physical and mental patterns to expand their own movement vocabulary. Ingrained habits and patterns of thinking will be left behind to create space for new ideas and for movement.

http://amandakmiller.com/

Amanda Miller was born and raised in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She commenced her professional training at the North Carolina School of the Arts/UNCSA, having received the first Terry Sanford Scholarship. She continued her studies in New York while she danced for the Chicago Lyrical Opera Ballet, the Deutschen Oper Berlin and other independent events. In 1984 William Forsythe invited her to Ballett Frankfurt as a dancer and soon thereafter she became resident choreographer .

In 1992 Amanda Miller founded Pretty Ugly Dance Company. An inter-disciplinary performing ensemble. From 1997 until 2004 creating a unique collaboration with the civic theatre in Freiburg (Baden-Württemberg) Ballett Freiburg Pretty Ugly was founded. Along side her work with her own company, Amanda Miller created ballets for renowned ensembles and founded in 2000 the improvisational dance group, " Yummydance" in Matsuyama, Japan. Increasingly she has addressed herself to training others in her work method/process and is active world wide as a teacher. In 2004 till 2008, she launched the aid organisation "Art for Tibet", which supported Tibetans in exile in India.

Amanda Miller has won numerous awards. In 1993, she was awarded the Wexner Center Prize and created the production "Night by Itself". In 1994, the production received three prizes at the 'Rencontres Chorégraphiques International de Bagnolet'. In 2004 for her work 'Four for Nothing' she received the leading Dutch accolade for choreography 'The Golden Swan'.

From January 2005 until May 2009 Amanda Miller was artistic director of "Pretty Ugly tanz köln", again a collaboration with the theater and city of Koln. In May 2009 she directed her first Opera “Orpheo ed Euridice” at the civic theatre in Ulm.

In summer of 2009, she returned to her home North Carolina. She has been on the faculty for ADF, artist in residence at Duke, Palucca Hochshule, Germany and taught master classes at UNC. She continues to work as a free-lance choreographer, opera director, instructor, performer, and offers improvisational workshops. Her most recent work was "Field Days" premiered 2011 with Netherlands Dans Theater.