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, [...]
The upcoming Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts (PIFA) will hold the spotlight for three and a half weeks this spring (April 7 to May 1) boasting a slate of unprecedented dance programming—from the rare pairing of the Pennsylvania Ballet and the Philadelphia Orchestra to a world premiere by renowned hip-hop phenom, Rennie Harris to [...]
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 is welcoming noted composer Zeena Parkins to town for a one-week workshop to continue to develop the company’s upcoming World Premiere, PUNCH. The piece will debut April 21-23, 2011 at the Innovation Studio at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts as part of the 2011 Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts. [...]
Miro Dance Theatre has spent the Spring in a creative laboratory process known as the Miro Mash-Ups. For three sessions, the company has gone into an intensive and experimental one week process with a rock band, a composer, and its core dancers to come out four days later and present what they have created. On [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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