Bebe Miller

Bebe Miller (born 1950) is an American choreographer, dancer and director.[2]

Six women of all ages dance in Bebe Miller's Necessary Beauty at the Wexner Center for the Arts on October 1, 2008: Yen-Fang Yu, Bebe Miller, Cynthia Oliver, and Kathleen Hermesdorf, standing; and Kristina Isabelle and Angie Hauser, sitting.[1]

Career

Miller was born in 1950 in Brooklyn, New York.[3] Following her graduation for Ohio State University with a degree in dance, Miller danced in the troupe of Nina Wiener for six years.[4] She formed her own company, Bebe Miller Dance, in 1984.[4] Miller was a professor of dance at the Ohio State University from 2000 to 2017, holding the rank of Distinguished Professor in the Arts and Humanities when she retired.[5]

Awards
  • Creative Artists Public Service Fellowship, 1984, for choreography;
  • New York Foundation for the Arts Choreographer's Fellowship, 1984 and 1991;
  • National Endowment for the Arts Choreographer's Fellowship, 1985, 1986, 1987, and 1988;
  • New York Dance and Performance Award ("Bessie") for choreography, 1986 and 1987;
  • American Choreographer Award and John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, both 1988;[6]
  • Dewar's Young Artists Recognition Award, 1990.

Miller received a 2006 Creative Capital Award in the discipline of Performing Arts.[7] In 2010 she was named a Fellow by United States Artists.[8] In 2012, Miller was awarded a Doris Duke Artist award.[9]

References
  1. "NEA ARTS: Team Work: The Bebe Miller Company's Collaborative Effort for body". 1 August 2009. Archived from the original on 1 August 2009. Retrieved 10 October 2017.
  2. Kourlas, Gia (18 December 2014). "Bebe Miller Introduces Two Choreographers in Gibney Series". Retrieved 13 January 2018 – via NYTimes.com.
  3. "Great Performances: Free To Dance - Biographies - Bebe Miller". www.thirteen.org. Retrieved 13 January 2018.
  4. Kassing, Gayle (17 May 2017). History of Dance, 2E. Human Kinetics. pp. 254–. ISBN 978-1-4925-3669-7.
  5. "Thank You and So Long, Bebe Miller!". 6 January 2017. Retrieved 13 January 2018.
  6. https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/bebe-miller/
  7. "Creative Capital - Investing in Artists who Shape the Future". Creative-capital.org. Retrieved 10 October 2017.
  8. "Artist Grants - United States Artists". 10 November 2010. Archived from the original on 10 November 2010. Retrieved 10 October 2017.
  9. "DDCF Announces $50 Million Initiative to Support Performing Artists" (PDF). Ddcf.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-05-11. Retrieved 10 October 2017.

Other sources
  • Attitude, January–April 1987.
  • Carman, Joseph. "Bebe Miller Company" Dance Magazine 16 Nob 1999. Print.
  • Dance Magazine, May 1986; December 1989.
  • Dance Theatre Journal, Spring 1987.
  • High Performance, Fall 1991.
  • Los Angeles Times, February 13, 1989; January 21, 1990; January 29, 1990; April 20, 1991.
  • Miller, Bebe Wilson Web 1999. The HW Wilson Web Company. Print.
  • New Yorker, February 20, 1989.
  • New York Times, November 30, 1989; May 26, 1991.
  • On the Next Wave, Brooklyn Academy of Music, October 1989.
  • San Francisco Chronicle, April 26, 1991.
  • 7 Days, December 13, 1989.
  • Washington Post, March 10, 1989.
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