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\u201cYou have companies today that want dancers who are going to creatively participate in the process,\u201d Santos says. \u201cAndrea takes that a long way.\u201d<\/p>\n
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In 2019, Miller told the art magazine Bomb that this is especially how she has liked to work since she was pregnant and unable to demonstrate what she wanted.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt set the stage for the dancers to be able to be creative and think for themselves and not wait for me to give them materials for the movement.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe dancers are at different places. \u2026 Some are struggling, and once in a while, you just need to tell them, \u2018This is great,\u2019 without giving them any feedback. Once they stop questioning everything they do, they\u2019ll make better material. \u2026 Some need to be pushed, and some are resting on their laurels.\u201d<\/p>\n
Resting doesn\u2019t appear to be a major feature of Miller\u2019s dance pieces, six of which will be performed in Dallas in a program she\u2019s calling \u201cBodies of Matter.\u201d They range in length from the four-minute duet No Ordinary Love, set to the Sade song of the same name, to the six-times-as-long Desde, described as a fleeting, atmospheric work performed to the haunting soundscapes of American composer Nicholas Jaar.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThis evening that Andrea is bringing is a good picture of her work,\u201d Santos says. \u201cThey\u2019re all different, they’re all interesting, but you can see that they’re coming from the same creative mind. I love someone that has that ability to use their vocabulary in many different ways. \u2026 I find her very contemporary, very young, very daring. She’ll push some boundaries that other choreographers don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n
He\u2019s a particular fan of 2019\u2019s Sama, which will close the two Dallas performances. Commissioned by Juilliard and the British troupe Rambert2, it features dancers in burnt orange costumes and on stilts performing to a pulsating electronic score.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt has great energy,\u201d Santos says. \u201cIn a dance series of 10 companies, it’s nice to have something that you know takes the audience to a new place.\u201d<\/p>\n
Campbell, who co-founded the now defunct MADboots dance group, remembers seeing Gallim at the Joyce Theater in New York while he was still at Juilliard.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI was immediately awestruck by how rigorous the movement vocabulary was,\u201d he says. \u201cI think it was the first time I recognized how intense and sensual movement could be, which was very influential in my choreographic career. \u2026 I don’t think anyone’s going to walk away feeling indifferent toward her.\u201d<\/p>\n
Miller has said she made Sama out of concern that the digital age might be numbing us physically.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u201cIs this the beginning of an apocalypse of the body?\u201d she asks. \u201cThere are essential, ambiguous and complex elements of our humanity that can only be accessed through our physical experience. Forget\u00a0conventional, oversimplifying or\u00a0automated rules of reasoning.\u201d<\/p>\n
Or as she told Bomb, \u201cIf life is filled with so much hardship and pain, how do you get to a point where you can both recognize the beautiful things and let them affect you in a way that enables\u00a0your spirit to transcend such heaviness?<\/p>\n
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\u201cWe look for a lot of those answers outside ourselves \u2014 looking at your phone, through substances, or a boyfriend \u2014 disassociating through focusing on external things that make you happy,\u201d she told the magazine.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe real work happens when this question is something you can solve with yourself, with your own consciousness. \u2026 The way you talk to yourself about who you are, how you berate yourself and how you love yourself or are grateful to yourself. I feel like the work has to be done here, in the body.\u201d<\/p>\n
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May 29-30 at 7:30 p.m. at Moody Performance Hall, 2520 Flora St. $43-$97. attpac.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Gallim dance ensemble in a scene from director Andrea Miller’s “Sama.” The Brooklyn-based troupe will appear in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-239012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}