Celeste Miller

Celeste Miller is a choreographer, solo performer, educator, and community arts animator, located in the United States.

Celeste Miller
Occupations
  • choreographer
  • solo performer
  • educator
  • community arts animator

Career

Miller is the Institute Director of the Curriculum in Motion Institute, co-founder of Jacob's Pillow Curriculum in Motion, and Lead Artist of Jacob's Pillow Medicine in Motion.[1] She has authored a description of the Curriculum in Motion approach, titled 'Dancing with our Textbooks on our Heads', in the book Hybrid Lives of Teaching Artists in Dance and Theatre Arts: A Critical Reader (Cambria Press).[2] She has also been a facilitator at the Alabama Dance Council.[3] She is currently an associate professor in the department of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies at Grinnell College, where she is the artistic director of the Grinnell College Dance Ensemble/ACTivate.[4] Miller earned her MFA from Hollins University/American Dance Festival.[1]

Her choreographic piece titled 'Vision On 66: Go Dad Go' was performed in Tampa and St. Petersburg,[5] as well as L.A.[6] Her piece 'At Water’s Edge/Al filo de agua', directed in conjunction with Dora Arreola and featuring dancer Miroslava Wilson, vocalist Siki Carpio, and violinist/composer Chip Epsten,[7] was performed at the Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, Florida in June 2022.[8]

Awards

Miller has received a National Endowment for the Arts Choreography Fellowship and the Atlanta Mayor's Fellowship in the Arts.[9]

References
  1. "Celeste Miller". Jacob's Pillow. Retrieved 2023-05-09.
  2. "Hybrid Lives of Teaching Artists in Dance and Theatre Arts: A Critical Reader By Mary Elizabeth Anderson and Doug Risner". www.cambriapress.com. Retrieved 2023-05-10.
  3. "Celeste Miller, Facilitator". alabamadancecouncil.org. Retrieved 2023-06-17.
  4. "millerce | Grinnell College". www.grinnell.edu. Retrieved 2023-05-09.
  5. "A performer gets her kicks from Route 66". Tampa Bay Times. Retrieved 2023-05-10.
  6. Perlmutter, Donna (1992-06-01). "Dance : Celeste Miller: Route 66 Connects at Highways". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2023-05-10.
  7. "At Water's Edge / Al Filo del Agua Premiere". Art2Action. 2022-05-13. Retrieved 2023-06-17.
  8. Greenberg, Chloe. "MFA St. Pete's final 'Water's Edge' bilingual theater and dance performance happens Sunday". Creative Loafing Tampa Bay. Retrieved 2023-06-17.
  9. "About the Contributors". The Dancer-Citizen. Retrieved 2023-05-10.


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