Upcoming projects
6th Annual African Arts in the Park 2010
MillerDANCE will be performing on August 14, 2010 from 11:00 - 11:30 in the Dance and Cultural Hut in West Park on Pittsburgh's North Side.
UMOJA African Arts in the Park presents:
6th Annual African Arts in the Park 2010
"Many Cultures, One Community"
Saturday, August 14, 2010 & Sunday, August 15, 2010
11am to 7pm
Allegheny Commons Park, Pittsburgh, PA
Participants will have the opportunity to view and hear African Art presentations through live stage music; a browse through the vendor marketplace; stop at booths for demonstration of an art form, such as head wrapping or drum-making; or perhaps take part in an interactive workshop such as poetry or spoken word. The festival will bring a variety pf African artists and organizations together for two days of celebration and the opportunity to share and demonstrate traditional African and African influenced genres of art. Imagine over 5,000 attendees including mysterious stilt-walkers, invigorating steel drummers, expressive African dancers and storytellers weaving tales, and strolling sogows (life-sized African puppets). It's an awesome visual...isn't it?
Performance tour to Mumbai
A collaboration with Namita Bodaji
Early 2011
MillerDANCE received an amazing offer from our good friend Namita Bodaji, who has invited us to be part of an exciting cultural exchange. MillerDance will travel to Mumbai, India to perform in January or February of 2011, and Namita and her company will perform in Pittsburgh in June 2011. The collaborative work will focus on three rivers in the north of India and the confluence of three rivers here in Pittsburgh. Namita and Mary feel that with two countries, two cities and six rivers, there is much to explore about the confluences at each of their cities and to represent through dance two cultural viewpoints of the power of rivers.
Act now to support MillerDANCE in its tour to India!
Recent events
Updated July 7, 2010
June 2010: I look at you and I see myself at SPACE
Audience, musician and dancers come together around and within the story quilts of renowned fiber artist Tina Williams Brewer. I Look at You and I See Myself expresses and explores themes such as identity, memory and the nature of relationships among diverse people.
Featuring Charles Hall, musician and composer; Venise St. Pierre, costume designer; Adam Koe Leong, lighting designer and production manager; Mary Miller, choreographer; and the company dancers of MillerDance.
Venue: SPACE, a gallery in downtown Pittsburgh's vibrant Cultural District.
July 2009: City Dance/Traveling Dance
About
Throughout July 2009, Miller Dance presented City Dance/Traveling Dance on the sidewalks of downtown Pittsburgh. The work, performed by five dancers and two musicians, was designed to remove the barriers separating life and art by bringing modern dance into the everyday routine of a busy downtown sidewalk.
The piece was performed five times during the month.
Press
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Local Dance Companies Take to the StreetsRoutes
Performances started from the Wood Street Gallery.
Wednesday July 1
- Travel down Liberty to Stanwix Street turn left
- Travel on Stanwix Street to Third Ave turn left
- Travel on Third Ave to Grant St. turn left
- Travel on Grant St to sixth Ave turn left
- Travel on Sixth St go back to Wood Street Galleries
Thursday July 9 ‘Traveling’
- Travel on Liberty to Seventh St turn right
- Travel on Seventh to Fort Duquesne Blvd turn right
- Travel on Fort Duquesne Blvd to Ninth St. turn right
- Travel on Ninth St. to Penn Ave. turn left
- Travel on Penn to Tenth St. turn right
- Travel on Tenth to Liberty turn right
- Travel on Liberty to Wood Street go left and return to Wood Street Galleries
Tuesday July 14 ‘Traveling’
- Travel up sixth to Grant turn right
- Travel on Grant to Oliver turn right
- Travel on Oliver to William Penn Place (turns into Cherry Way) turn left
- Travel on William Penn Place/Cherry Way to fifth turn right
- Travel on Fifth to wood Street turn right and continue back to Wood Street Galleries
Monday July 20 ‘Traveling’
- Travel on Wood to Fifth Ave turn right
- Travel on Fifth to Market Street turn left
- Travel on Market to Forbes turn right
- Travel on Forbes to Stanwix turn left
- Travel on Stanwix to Blvd of the Allies turn left
- Travel on the Blvd of the Allies to Smithfield turn left
- Travel on Smithfield to Sixth Ave turn left on sixth and return to Wood Street Galleries
Friday July 31 ‘Traveling’
- Travel down Liberty to Ninth St. cross over and stay on Liberty
- Travel on liberty to Grant Street and turn left
- Travel on Liberty to 11th St and go left
- Travel on 11th to Penn go left
- Travel on Penn Ave to Sixth Street turn left
- Travel on Sixth Street to Liberty turn left
- Travel on Liberty to Sixth Avenue turn right and continue to Wood Street Galleries