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Founded by choreographer Andrea Miller, Gallim Dance is a New York-based company. Known for its visceral movement that creates a lasting resonance in the conscience, Gallim Dance includes an award-winning ensemble of dancers hailed for their quick wit, morphing physical quality, and technical virtuosity.
The mission of Gallim Dance is to create, to play inside the imagination, to find juxtapositions of the mind and body that resonate in the soul, to investigate our limitations and pleasures, and to realize the endless human capacity for inspiration.
Miller's works are simultaneously kinetic and intimate expressions of the self and its inner mosaic of weakness, desires, and struggles. Her use of extreme physicality - movement that shifts between explosive power and contained tension - creates an experience where the dancers appear to exist at the edge of their limits.
Choreographer Andrea Miller, originally from Salt Lake City, Utah, is a graduate of the Juilliard School, and former dancer with Ohad Naharin's Ensemble Batsheva, Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, The Limon Dance Company, and Buglisi Dance Theater.
Her work has been commissioned and performed throughout the United States, Canada, and Israel. Miller has been selected as one of Dance Magazine's "25 to Watch"
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Founded by choreographer Andrea Miller, Gallim Dance is a New York-based company. Known for its visceral movement that creates a lasting resonance in the conscience, Gallim Dance includes an award-winning ensemble of dancers hailed for their quick wit, morphing physical quality, and technical virtuosity.
The mission of Gallim Dance is to create, to play inside the imagination, to find juxtapositions of the mind and body that resonate in the soul, to investigate our limitations and pleasures, and to realize the endless human capacity for inspiration.
Miller's works are simultaneously kinetic and intimate expressions of the self and its inner mosaic of weakness, desires, and struggles. Her use of extreme physicality - movement that shifts between explosive power and contained tension - creates an experience where the dancers appear to exist at the edge of their limits.
Choreographer Andrea Miller, originally from Salt Lake City, Utah, is a graduate of the Juilliard School, and former dancer with Ohad Naharin's Ensemble Batsheva, Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, The Limon Dance Company, and Buglisi Dance Theater.
Her work has been commissioned and performed throughout the United States, Canada, and Israel. Miller has been selected as one of Dance Magazine's "25 to Watch" (January 2009). In addition to being the artistic director for Gallim, she was also the Associate Choreographer for Noord Nederlandse Dans in Groningen, Holland (2009-2011).
Recent commissions include Ballet Hispanico, Ballet Bern, Hubbard Street 2, The Juilliard School, Zenon Dance Company, Springboard Danse, Repertory Dance Theater, Hedwig Dances, and Arts Umbrella, among others. She has choreographed for students at The Juilliard School, The Ailey School, SUNY-Purchase, and New Jersey Dance Theater Ensemble. Miller is the recipient of choreographic awards and residencies including the Hubbard Street 2 Choreographic Competition and The Stella Adler Studio of Acting Artist in Residence (MAD AIR), and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council MCAF Grant. She is a recipient of a 2009 Princess Grace Award - Choreography Fellowship. In addition to choreography, Miller teaches dance and movement to actors.
Gallim Dance burst onto the New York dance scene with its debut performance in 2007 and immediately caught the attention of the New York dance community. The company has subsequently performed in many premiere dance venues, including Jacob's Pillow, Joyce SoHo, Movement Research at Judson Church, Dance Theater Workshop, WHITE WAVE, The Flea Theater, Clark Studio Theater, Martha Graham Studios, Teatron Suzan Delal (Tel Aviv), Studio Varda (Tel Aviv), and The Norman Rothstein Theatre (Vancouver).
In August 2010, the company premiered Wonderland to sold-out audiences at the Joyce Theater. Miller’s 2008 work Blush has been selected by the National Dance Project for a 2011-2012 Touring Award, which provides Gallim with meaningful support to bring Blush on tour to various cities throughout the US. Gallim will premiere a new work by Miller which will premiere at the Joyce Theater in June 2012.
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"Miller’s work is wrenching and moving and even though you might need a period of recovery afterwards, you’ll find that her works beckon for repeated viewings. "
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