Performances
Photo: Gioncarlo Valentine.
Platform 2024: A Delicate Ritual curated by Kyle Abraham
Indifferent Forest is a new work being developed by Bebe Miller, Michelle Boulé, Angie Hauser, and Darrell Jones. Miller, Hauser, and Jones perform in this Danspace Project iteration.
“The world doesn’t wait for an explanation, and yet we persist. Our living together depends on the generative rub between us, in relation to the moment at hand; our dancing together depends on the same.” In this dance, Miller writes, “we’re counting on the ground between us all to take us home.”
June 6-8, 2024 at Danspace Project St. Mark’s Church in the Bowery
Tether (2022)
New work conceived and performed by Angie Hauser, Darrell Jones, and Bebe Miller. Performances at Baryshinkov Arts Center, NYC (October 27-29, 2022); Jazz at Lincoln Center, NYC (Feb 13, 2023); Motion State Festival, Providence, RI (March 10-11, 2023)
To Be Swept Up! (2022)
Ensemble choreography by Angie Hauser and Bebe Miller, commissioned by Smith College Department of Dance.
Teaching
Salt Spring Island Contact Festival 2024
July 26 - August 4
Principles and Practice with
Chris Aiken and Angie Hauser
This workshop will focus on the development of physical intelligence and emotional resonance within contact improvisation. Physical intelligence is not about specific movements but the ability to solve the emergent tasks that evolve within the dancing. This manifests differently in each person and includes the ability to provide mobile support, to organize your body so that you can be lifted, to find fluid pathways into and out of the floor, and the ability to push, yield, and pull away from your partner.
Physical intelligence involves perceptual acuity, the ability to hone in on what is significant to guide your movement, and your capacity to be in touch with yourself, your partners, and your environment. Emotional resonance, in this context, is the ability to sense how the dancing is affecting you, others, and your environment. It involves the senses and the ability to imagine how we impact one another. It includes the ability to inhibit one’s choices and to imagine beyond the sensorial moment to include questions like, “What if we tried something different?” Or, “ What is missing here?”
Our work seeks to help dancers deepen their understanding of the core principles of CI and to become inspired through the interplay of touch, movement, and imagination.
Solo/Duo Dancing with Bebe Miller and Angie Hauser at Bearnstow
August 11 - 17, 2024
Join us for the third installment of this immersive residential workshop at the beautiful Bearnstow on Parker Pond (ME).
At the heart of our dance making are moment-by-moment considerations of movement, relationship and profound play. Crafting solo and duet dances calls for a particular regard for these elements.
This workshop offers an opportunity to further your own practice under the direction of Bebe Miller and Angie Hauser, who have been collaborative dance makers for over twenty years. At the core of our work is the expressive, articulate dancing body; we are honing our choreographic intention through the clarity of our physicality. We will explore how our dancing is amplified in both solo and duet work, developing choreographic and technical specificity through a range of compositional strategies. We are particularly interested in the investigation of movement details, the articulation of effort with attention, the choreographic range of relationship, and how content speaks to context. This workshop is geared toward experienced dancers.
Taking advantage of the distinct setting of Bearnstow, we will work in studio, in the landscape, and in community with one another. Our working day begins with a guided dance warm-up, focusing on preparing the body and imagination; we continue with morning and afternoon creative process sessions. Throughout the workshop we will seed our explorations with information garnered daily, activating performance – seeing and being seen as we work – to deepen the group’s exchange. We’ll conclude with a showing of work and process created by participants.
come dance with us in Portugal
Chris Aiken and Angie Hauser teaching for a week in the beautiful Algarve.
Angie Hauser and Darrell Jones in residency at the University of Florida.
March 28 -29, 2023
Chris and Angie teaching in Boston
Enliven your physical intelligence and emotional resonance through guided practice and Contact Improvisation principles.
March 4-5 2023
Other news
Congratulations Chris Aiken and Angie Hauser: 2020 MCC Artist Fellows
Aiken and Hauser were awarded one of three Fellowships in Choreography in recognition of exceptional work.
DANCE MOTION USA 2018 Tour
Bebe Miller Company was invited to join the final cohort of Dance Motion USA for a tour sharing dance practice, performance, and community in Colombia and Peru.