Posts Tagged ‘ Tobin Rothlein ’

An Attempt to Fail at Groundbreaking Theater comes to Philadelphia

Jan 30th, 2013 | By | Category: Reviews

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 [...]



Double the fun, a Double Bill with Miller Rothlein

Nov 5th, 2012 | By | Category: Bill Hebert's Behind The Lens

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 Opens Season With A Double Bill in the White Space at the Crane Arts Old School Company Brings Back generate. degenerate. and Self Portrait

Oct 31st, 2012 | By | Category: Archived Articles

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 [...]



Miro Dance Theater residency in Cambodia

Mar 7th, 2011 | By | Category: Artist News

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’s Artistic Staff To Leave for A Six-Week Residency in Cambodia for Further Development of a New Project with Khmer Arts Ensemble

Nov 29th, 2010 | By | Category: Artist News

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 Moves Mash-Ups To Drexel’s Mandell Theater

Mar 23rd, 2010 | By | 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 | 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 | Category: Partner Publication - FringeArts

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 | 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 | 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 [...]