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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
