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July 2016

Movers & Shapers: Mitchell Rose

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MOVERS & SHAPERS:
Podcast No.28 – MITCHELL ROSE12 Mitchell Rose Portrait

Release Date: July 19, 2016

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ABOUT MITCHELL ROSE:  PROFESSOR AND DANCE-FILMMAKER

Prior to becoming a filmmaker, Mitchell Rose was a New York-based choreographer. His company toured internationally for 15 years. Eventually he was drawn more to visual media and chose to become a filmmaker, entering The American Film Institute as a Directing Fellow. Since A.F.I., his films have won 78 festival awards and are screened around the world.The New York Times called him: “A rare and wonderful talent.” The Washington Post wrote that his work was “in the tradition of Chaplin, Keaton, and Tati—funny and sad and more than the sum of both.”Mr. Rose tours a program called The Mitch Show, an evening of his short films together with audience-participation performance pieces. He toured The Mitch Show in Kosovo as a U.S. State Dept. Cultural Envoy.Mr. Rose is currently a professor of dance-filmmaking at Ohio State University.

MORE ON MITCHELL ROSE

PODCAST INTERVIEW LINKS

Tufts University: Department of Drama and Dance

Alwin Nikolais

Merce Cunninghum 

David White 

CETA

Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival

Trisha Brown “Water Motor”

American Film Institute

UCLA National Dance/Media Project

“Deere John” (and other films)

Pew Charitable Trust

Ashley Roland

Jamey Hampton

BodyVox

CalArts, Dance

Department of Dance – The Ohio State University

David Hinton “Birds”

Bebe Miller

Exquisite Corps 

Ellen Maynard

Robbie Shaw

 

Podcast produced by: The Moving Architects
Interviewer: Erin Carlisle Norton
Intro Music: “Singing Distance” by Elijah Aaron

Movers & Shapers: Amy Miller

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Photo Credit: Julieta Cervantes

Photo Credit: Julieta Cervantes

MOVERS & SHAPERS:

Podcast No.27 – Amy Miller

Release Date: July 5, 2016

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ABOUT AMY MILLER: ASSOCIATE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR AND COMPANY CO-DIRECTOR GIBNEY DANCE COMPANY

AMY MILLER is a dancer, choreographer, educator and advocate. A former principal with the Ohio Ballet, Miller spent a decade performing masterworks by such choreographers as Anthony Tudor, José Limon, Kurt Jooss, and Paul Taylor, as well as Lucinda Childs, Laura Dean, and Alonzo King among many others.  She was a founding member of Cleveland-based GroundWorks DanceTheater, where she collaborated on new work with such dance-makers as David Shimotakahara, Dianne McIntyre, Alex Ketley, Keely Garfield, David Parker and Gina Gibney.   As Artistic Associate of GroundWorks, Miller choreographed seven works on the company and remains a guest artist.  Such composers as the genre-defying Ryan Lott (aka Son Lux), and Oberlin Conservatory of Music professor and composer Peter Swendsen have worked with Miller on a wide range of musical scoring for dance.  Miller and Swendsen’s ongoing collaboration has produced numerous projects for GroundWorks, as well as solo works, and a recent premiere with Gibney Dance Company. Her solo work has been seen in New York City at Judson Church, Mark Morris Dance Center, and Scandinavia House and has been produced at Spoke the Hub, West Fest Dance Festival, the West End Theater’s Soaking WET series. Prioritizing esthetic versatility, Miller teaches both Professional Level Ballet and Contemporary Forms classes at Gibney Dance Center and has fosterednumerous collegiate teaching residencies including Cleveland State University, Oberlin College and NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.

Interested in finding ways to foster both artistic excellence and social engagement in all of her work, Miller strives to prioritize both components in equal measure.  As Associate Artistic Director, Miller focuses on Gibney Dance’s Community Action program through facilitating movement workshops with survivors of trauma, conducting both local and international trainings for artists interested in engaging in social action, developing healthy relationship workshops for young people, and raising awareness about the role of the arts in violence prevention.  Miller has conducted Gibney Dance Global Community Action Residencies at Mimar Sinan University and Koc University (Istanbul), University of Cape Town (South Africa), DOCH: School of Dance and Circus (Stockholm) and MUDA Africa (Tanzania.) In addition to her artistic and community action work with the Company, Amy is Co-Directing the Discover Dance New York City program, which offers comprehensive, customized residency opportunities for university students from all over the world.  Last spring, Miller was honored to receive a Arts & Artists in Progress “Pay it Forward” Award from Brooklyn Arts Exchange.

MORE ON AMY MILLER

PODCAST INTERVIEW LINKS

Ohio Ballet and Heinz Poll

Thomas Skelton 

David Shimotakahara

GroundWorks DanceTheater

University of Akron – School of Dance

Gibney Dance

Incarcerated Voices – The If Project

Rolfing

Podcast produced by: The Moving Architects
Interviewer: Erin Carlisle Norton
Intro Music: “Singing Distance” by Elijah Aaron