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 dancer [...]

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 artistry, Miller [...]

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 the [...]

By Merilyn Jackson, For The Inquirer
Einstein described quantum particles as “spooky action at a distance,” and the behavior of particles and waves and their relationship forever perplexed him. When dancer-choreographer Amanda Miller and filmmaker-videographer Tobin Rothlein wanted to explore the same scientific phenomenon through dance, theater technology, and romantic relationships, they had a universe of [...]

Miro Dance Theatre Presents Philadelphia Premiere of
“Spooky Action” at the Kimmel Center, May 9 and 10
A new dance and video performance from Philadelphia’s Miro Dance Theatre takes on topics that not even Einstein could fully understand. When confronted with the seemingly unexplainable relationship that quantum particles exhibited, even over long distances, he called the phenomenon [...]

MIRO DANCE THEATRE presents Self-Portrait
a solo dance work celebrating the life and art of Frida Kahlo
Feb. 13 @ Bryn Mawr College Performing Arts Series in a program with BalletX
Miro Dance Theatre will present Self-Portrait at the Bryn Mawr College Performing Arts Series, in a shared program with BalletX. The unique program reunites the two contemporary [...]

Dancers In Hades
By Louise E. Wright, For The Bulletin
No stranger to the world of opera, Amanda Miller is about to venture into the realm of furies and blessed spirits. This month, Ms. Miller, co-artistic director of Miro Dance Theatre, makes her Metropolitan Opera debut in Christoph Willibald Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice.
The opera tells the story [...]