Dance Films
"Miller takes what can feel like a static place and fills it with energy and a sense of momentum." - Brian Schaefer, Dance Magazine
Another Dance Film (2021)
Choreographed by Andrea Miller, starring NYCB principal Sara Mearns, directed by Ariel Schulman & Henry Joost of the critically acclaimed production company Supermarché, produced by Jacob Jonas The Company in partnership with Somewhere Magazine.
5:09 minutes
BOAT (2020)
A new dance film by Andrea Miller and Ben Stamper, adapted from Miller’s acclaimed work for stage BOAT (2016), explores what it looks like, feels like, and means to be searching for home. The piece was commissioned by Northrop Auditorium at the University of Minnesota and premiered in an online event on November 19, 2020. Featuring the music of Arvo Pärt, performed on Northrop’s pipe organ and by Minneapolis’s PopUp Choir, the film takes viewers on a journey of people becoming undone, floating adrift, holding each other, building bonds, and allowing hope and dignity to grow anew.
Cinematography by Andrew Michael Ellis, Produced by Stephanie DeLuca, Production Manager: Jeanette Bonner, GALLIM Company Manager & Studio Crew Chief: Anna McDunn
Cast: Allysen Hooks, Christopher Kinsey, Sean Lammer, Taylor Stanley, Haley Sung, Georgia Usborne *with special appearances by Mateo and Noa Rengifo-Miller
32:40 minutes
new song (2020)
Commissioned by New York City Ballet for their Digital Fall Season, new song premiered on October 29, 2020.
Performed by: Harrison Coll, Unity Phelan, Indiana Woodward, Sebastien Villarini-Velez
Choreography by Andrea Miller, Directed by Ezra Hurwitz, Director of Photography Jon Chema, Music by Victor Jara (“Manifesto”), Produced by Stephani DeLuca, Creative Assistant Haley Sung
new song was featured in the New Yorker article “How New York City Ballet Took On the Pandemic” by Michael Schulman and with photography by Michael Avedon.
5:51 minutes
orilla (2020)
Commissioned by Ballet Hispánico in June, 2020, Andrea Miller and filmmaker Ben Stamper created this short dance film in collaboration with BH company members Chris Bloom and Gabrielle Sprauve, who danced (and filmed) the work. Music by Nicola Cruz.
3:36 minutes
Decameron row (2020)
Andrea Miller is a part of a new international art project benefiting mental health support services. Producer Itamar Kubovy invited 100 artists around the world, including Etgar Keret, Camille A. Brown, Annie-B Parson, Paul Lazar, Pilobolus, OK Go, and many brilliant others, to contribute one-minute videos to Decameron Row, a collective record of this stormy year. Check out Decameron Row at www.decameronrow.com.
Dance Magazine mentions Andrea Miller's piece in Decameron Row.
Decameron Row included in the NY Times list of 7 Things to Do This Weekend.
1:00 minute
notes on gathering (2020)
Works & Process at the Guggenheim commissioned this short dance film by Andrea Miller and filmmaker Ben Stamper, which premiered on August 24, 2020.
Directed by Ben Stamper & Andrea Miller, Choreography by Andrea Miller, Performance by Misa Lucyshyn & Arden Stamper, Music by Jordan T. Chiolis, Camerawork by Ben Stamper & Misa Lucyshyn, Editing by Ben Stamper, Commissioned by Works & Process at the Guggenheim (2020)
Notes on Gathering included in the NY Times list of 7 Things to Do This Weekend.
9:45 minutes
In This Life (2019)
Grief is unavoidable and universal; a painfully physical experience in which language is often inadequate and where words are often unable to convey loss or to comfort it. In five acts, this film illustrates the stages of grief, exploring the language of loss through dance, narrative scenes, and performance art, conveying the complexity of grief in the often wordless way it impacts all our lives.
After every major loss, we must grieve for the person we used to be, for the future we thought we'd have. The journey to accept this new version of ourselves is often fraught with rage and pain as we shed our old skin to make way for the new. This film is about that journey.
Directed by Bat-Sheva Guez, starring Robbie Fairchild, choreographed by James Alsop, Warren Craft, Robbie Fairchild, Christopher Wheeldon, and Andrea Miller.
Watch Full Film HERE
Screened by:
All Arts (part of WNET and PBS)
BRKLYN Film Festival - Best Experimental Film
Rhode Island International Film Festival - Best Musical Film
Lincoln Center Dance on Camera Film Festival - Official Selection
Art of Brooklyn Film Festival
Lighthouse Film Festival
American Dance Festival Movies by Movers
Newport Beach Film Festival
11th KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival
Santa Monica College
11:26 minutes