Posts Tagged ‘ Miro Dance Theatre ’

Miro Dance Theatre Closes Out Mash-Ups Series at Kimmel’s Summer Solstice event

Jun 9th, 2010 | By Dance Journal Staff | Category: Archived Articles

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 Moves Mash-Ups To Drexel’s Mandell Theater

Mar 23rd, 2010 | By Dance Journal Staff | Category: Artist News

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 [...]



Miro Dance Theatre Presents U.S. Premiere of How Am I Not Myself?

Jan 21st, 2010 | By Dance Journal Staff | Category: Archived Articles

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 [...]



Miro Dance Theatre Powers Up for “Generate. Degenerate.”

Aug 27th, 2009 | By Dance Journal Staff | Category: Dance at Philadelphia Live Arts Festival & Philly Fringe

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 [...]



Exploring quantum physics’ relationship with romance

May 11th, 2009 | By Dance Journal Staff | Category: Reviews

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 [...]



A Original Work about Love and Quantum Physics, Told Through Dance and Video

May 1st, 2009 | By Dance Journal Staff | Category: Archived Articles

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 [...]



MIRO DANCE THEATRE presents Self-Portrait a solo dance work celebrating the life and art of Frida Kahlo

Jan 31st, 2009 | By Dance Journal Staff | Category: Archived Articles

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 [...]



Philadelphia’s Amanda Miller Performs At The Met

Jan 11th, 2009 | By Dance Journal Staff | Category: Archived Articles

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 [...]