By Merilyn Jackson for The Dance Journal If you’ve ever been to a MiRo Mash-Up, you know that the deal is a weeklong workshop between a local band, a guest artist and the five-member dance group, which then shows what they have made in weekend performance. The company, however, has Un-Mashed its name to spell [...]

Before getting to see Miller Rothlein (Miro)’s Double Bill of “Generate.Regenerate” and “Self Portrait” I looked at promotional material for the show and saw that one of the pieces “Generate.Regenerate” premiered in 2009 when I first photographed it as part of the “Off the Grid” Festival. Hard to believe three years had passed since I [...]

Miller Rothlein will kick off its 2012-2013 season in the White Space at the Crane Arts Old School with a return to two of their favorite pieces. The program, Double Bill, includes two pieces performed by Artistic Director, Amanda Miller with live visuals and lighting by Tobin Rothlein and James Clotfelter. The performances will run [...]

Photograph and review by Kilian Kröll for The Dance Journal For a second, an industrial lamp suspended from the ceiling flickers on and hums. And so opens Miro Dance Theatre’s PUNCH at the Kimmel Center’s Innovation Studio, two stories below the ground. What follows is a post-modern mash-up of themes and images inspired by Pulcinella, [...]

Philadephila’s Miro Dance Theater has embarked on an exciting residency in Cambodia. Artistic directors Amanda Miller and Tobin Rothlein founded Miro in order to realize their unique creative vision and explore the intersections of contemporary dance, video and visual art. Miller has twenty years of performance experience including ten years as a dancer at the Pennsylvania Ballet. [...]

Miro Dance Theatre Artistic Director Amanda Miller and Producing Artistic Director Tobin Rothlein are preparing to leave Philadelphia for a six-week residency in Cambodia in January. The husband and wife team are packing up to plant roots in Cambodia for a short period of time, to continue collaborating with famed Cambodian Dance troupe, Khmer Arts [...]

Miro Dance Theatre’s creative laboratory is moving to the home of creativity and science in the city, Drexel University, for its second edition. Miro is partnering with Drexel’s Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design, MAD Dragon Records and the Dance program for their second Miro Mash-Up. Following its recent debut, the second Miro [...]

What happens when two people who have never met find out they¹ve been living parallel lives for more than 30 years? The answer ­ more than a year in the making ­ will premiere at the Painted Bride Art Center in Philadelphia on January 29 and 30. How Am I Not Myself? with Indian classical [...]

Here is a sneak peak at two new offerings coming to the Painted Bride for the 2010 season of dance… How am I Not Myself – Miro Dance Theater Amanda Miller and Viji Rao challenge the boundaries of modern and traditional Indian dance in In How am I not Myself? Together with Tobin Rothlein’s video [...]

Just blocks away from where Benjamin Franklin conducted his own experiments in electricity, the new dance theatre production from Miro Dance Theatre is sure to generate its own sparks. More precisely, “Generate. Degenerate.”, part of the first-ever Off the Grid Theater Festival, will generate up to 200 watts using bicycle-powered generators, enough energy to power [...]