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Recent and Current PROJECTS
Myth-Adventures of Herakles – commission High Museum of Art, Atlanta
Artist-in-Residence – yearlong residency Atlanta School
The Annunciation…sort of: Mary says ‘no’, American Dance Festival - July 2008
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival: Curriculum in Motion (Fall, Spring) Choreographer’s Lab (August)
Moving in the Spirit, Atlanta, GA – teacher training and commission
Ah! Rolihlahla : video feature directed/designed by Sabina Maja Angel
Ah! Rolihlahla
(for Nelson Mandela)
A full length feature written and Performed by Robert Earl Price with Musician/Composer/Bass Player Ramon Pooser and Dancer - Celeste Miller. Directed/Designed by Sabina Maja Angel.
http://www.re-verb.net/AHpreviewII.htm
High Museum of Art, Atlanta
In the Spring of 2007, Celeste was commissioned to create a new work to accompany the museum’s exhibit from the Louvre. The museum selected a work from the collection, an amphora from the Greek Antiquities collection, with the representation of Herakles’ Second Labor – the Lemean Hydra. The audience for this new work is the PBJ* crowd.
Excited to begin the new work, Celeste began her research into the art work, and into the Herakles’ mythology. Then a moment of perfect synchronicity she was introduced to Christina Salowey of Hollins University whose speciality is Greek amphoras depicting Herakles. Celeste has fallen in love with the work, and additional works from this period of time.
The piece, “Myth-Adventures of Herakles,” opens in October 2007 and runs through May 2008. To book a school tour, which includes the performance, contact the High Museum.
Celeste has recruited a revolving cast to perform this new work. Over the course of its run, “Myth-Adentures of Herakles” will be alternately performed by Kristie Casey, Wayne Smith, Normando Ismay and Celeste.
Artist-in-Residence, The Atlanta School, Atlanta
Celeste has been offering short-term residencies at the Atlanta School since 2005. In Spring of 2007, she proposed the possibility of a year long residency where she and teachers could work more closely developing a creative dance curriculum that is tied into student’s classroom units of study throughout the year. This is an opportunity for Celeste to engage her Curriculum in Motion work over the long term, instead of limited to weeklong residencies.
The Atlanta School is a remarkable school in the Inman Park neighborhood. They use a thematic integrated curriculum where the disciplines of language, math, music, physical education, the arts, social studies and sciences are explored through the experiential study of one topic over an extended period of time. Celeste is excited to be bringing dance into the mix. (Celeste’s daughter, Alexandra McColl, graduated from The Atlanta School in 2006)
The Annunciation…sort of: Mary says ‘no’
In fulfillment of her MFA graduation requirements at Hollins University, Celeste will be premiering this new work at the American Dance Festival in June 2008. An Atlanta premiere of the complete work will be announced for the spring of 2008. For an email posting about this event, please write to millerceleste@yahoo.com.
For this piece, Celeste is interested in examining the mythology of the story of the Virgin Mary, the positing of the question –“What if Mary said ‘no’”, and if she said “no”, the crisis of faith that would manifest for the Divine, in particular its affect on the Angel Gabriel. Which leads to the questions: “Can the Divine have a crisis of faith?” “What would it look like? Would the Divine be more compassionate to Human if the Divine were to experience a crisis of faith?”
There will be many collaborators on the piece. Celeste will post “assignments” on her blog that anyone is invited to complete. These assignment responses will be incorporated into the piece both as live and digital components.
Music for the piece will be composed by Chip Epsten. Additional collaborators to include: Normando Ismay, Sherone Price,
Atlanta Partnership for Arts & Learning: the South Atlanta High Project
Lead APAL artists Celeste Miller, Barry Stewart Mann (theatre) and Jeff Mather (site sculpture) have designed a three year pilot program for the South Atlanta High School of Law and Social Justice. Six residencies are scheduled to take place over the course of the school year, bringing artists into direct co-teaching environments with the classroom teachers.
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival
Curriculum in Motion November - December
Choreographer’s Lab August
Curriculum in Motion
Curriculum in Motion at Monument Mountain Regional High School, now entering its fourteenth year. This program, developed by Celeste Miller and JPDF Director of Education JR Glover is the foundation of Celeste’s arts-in-education work. Through Curriculum in Motion, the artist works in a co-teaching relationship with the classroom teacher for an intensive residency period. During this residency, students are guided through methods for using choreographic methods as a learning tool to explore classroom units of study. From the Sciences to Mathematics; Language Arts to Social Studies – students emBODY knowledge, expressing themselves through choreographic problem solving of academic material. In this multi-stranded approach students are introduced to the Fundamentals of Dance as an art form as they practice these fundamentals on curricular material. The results are a proven increase in students’ conceptual material, interpersonal and intrapersonal skill building, and education in the art form of dance.
Since 1996 Curriculum in Motion has included a co-mentoring component. Choreographers who are interested in deepening their choreographic practice through the development of Artist Educator skills in a high school setting, are invited for co-mentoring residencies with Miller.
For more on Curriculum in Motion www.jacobspillow.org.
Choreographers Lab: Leading Communities to Dance
Since 1994 Celeste has been Director of the Choreographers’s Lab: Leading Communities to Dance. In this (number) day intensive participants are guided through the theory, methods and politics of creating dance-based community projects. The course supports choreographers in developing/understanding/articulating their choreographic aesthetics within community based work, and especially how it applies to their overall body of choreographic work. Celeste believes that the work we do in community settings profoundly shapes the aesthetics of our work, and that our choreographic aesthetics also profoundly shape the experiences of the communities with which we engage.
Join Celeste in the simaltaneuosly stimulating and retreat-like environment of the Pillow. For application information www.jacobspillow.org
Moving in the Spirit, Atlanta, GA
“Changing lives and brightening futures…” so begins the mission statement for this dynamic youth development organization that empowers youth through a dance program for students ranging in age from pre-school to high school. Celeste enters her third collaborative year with Moving in the Spirit. Tuesday mornings, Celeste leads a class for the Moving in the Spirit teachers – an examiniation of choreographic strategies and classroom techniques for student empowerment. In January, this dedicated group of Artist Educators are directed in a choreographic work that premiers in the Moving in the Spirit annual concert at the Rialto Theatre.
www.movinginthespirit.org
Calendar September - December 2007
ANgelWOrks. 7 Stages Theatre, Atlanta
Video shoot for Sabina Angel’s film “Ah “ by Robert Earl Jones, Music: Dance:
New England Consortium of Artist Educators, Lesley College, Boston, MA, August
Keynote: Drowning in the Evidence, workshops:
Cold Soup Dinner Theatre, Atlanta, GA, September
“Don’t we have a home ec class in this school that you could sign up for…” excerpt from “Drowning in the Evidence”
Project FARE, Atlanta Public Schools and Georgia Tech University, September;
The Math Movement Match: Designing Movement Lesson plans for teaching math in the 4-5th grade classroom, Workshop for classroom teachers
Green Street Studios, Boston, MA Sept 20-21 Workshop in Text & Movement
Connecticut Commission on Arts and Tourism, Hartford, Ct September 27
Drowning in the Evidence , keynote
Atlanta, GA, High Museum of Art, “Myth-Adventures of Herakles”, 4;30-8:00PM, Educators
Atlanta, GA, High Museum of Art, October 28, Family Day, “Myth-Adventures of Herakles”, 2-2:30; 3-3:30
Café Bizzoso, Pine Lake, GA November 24,2007
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Curriculum in Motion at Monument Mountain Regional High School, Great Barrington, MA November 28 – December 8, 2007
