Andrea Miller

Andrea Miller is the Choreographer, Artistic Director, and Founder of GALLIM. An internationally known artist whose works are ancient and ultra-modern, nuanced and explosive, fantastical and honest, Miller creates movement-based works for stage, film, and the visual arts, and has been presented by major venues including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Guggenheim Museum, Art Basel, Sadler’s Wells, London Royal Opera House, Lincoln Center, The Kennedy Center, BAM, The Joyce, Jacob’s Pillow, Theatre National de Chaillot, Grec of Barcelona, Theaterhaus Stuttgart, Canal Madrid among others. 

From 2017–2018, Miller became the first choreographer to hold the distinction of being named Artist-in-Residence at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A 2014 Guggenheim Fellow, she has also received fellowships from Sadler’s Wells, New York City Center, and the Princess Grace Foundation. In October 2018, she was featured in Forbes as a female entrepreneur and leader in the dance world, and in 2008, as Dance Magazine’s 25 to watch.

Film credits include The Death and Life of John F. Donovan (2018), directed by Xavier Dolan, and In This Life (2018), starring Robbie Fairchild; Notes on Gathering (2020) directed by Andrea Miller and Ben Stamper; How Not to Make a Dance Film (2020), directed by Ariel Schulman; Shaping Absence (2020), directed by Andrea Miller and Ben Stamper; ORILLA (2020), directed by Andrea Miller and Ben Stamper; BOAT (2020), directed by Andrea Miller and Ben Stamper.

Andrew Michael Ellis

Andrew Ellis is a filmmaker by trade and a dancer by hobby. Most recently he completed filming on Terence Malick’s upcoming feature, and with Ben Stamper launched HELIX, a production company dedicated to dance on film.

Ben Stamper

As a filmmaker, Ben Stamper’s primary aim is to reveal the wonder of life that is hiding in plain sight. With a background in painting and music, Ben’s multidisciplinary filmmaking and thirst for adventure has flung him many a time to the far corners of the earth. Ben’s connection to dance was forged in his high school years, in what can only be described as an out-of-body experience while watching a small-town ballet production of Les Sylphides. From that point on, Ben has been enchanted with the alchemy of dance and film.

Ben also works in close collaboration with Director/Cinematographer Andrew Ellis to create films that explore the dance-on-film genre. Past works have featured Meredith Monk, the Paul Taylor American Modern Dance Company, Gallim Dance, New Chamber Ballet, Bill T. Jones, Ernest Felton Baker, and Matthew Rushing of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.

Emily Terndrup

“Building and Embodying Character”

This workshop explores how we create and breathe life into characters on film. We will be focusing on development via physicality, objective, and intention, in the service of constructing fully formed and inherently compelling characters.

BIO

Emily Terndrup was born in Des Moines, Iowa, Emily Terndrup is a performer, choreographer, and director based in New York City. Emily has spent much of the past decade working in immersive dance theater as a performer and rehearsal director for Punchdrunk's acclaimed 'Sleep No More' (2012-2019) in both New York and Shanghai. As a company member with Gallim Dance (2012-2014), she performed choreographer Andrea Miller's I Can See Myself in Your Pupil, Blush, Wonderland, Fold Here, and Mama Call throughout the US, Europe, and South America. Emily has also collaborated and performed with choreographers Bobbi Jene Smith, Luke Murphy-Attic Projects, Shannon Gillen + Guests, and Gregory Dolbashian. ⁠

"These days, experimenting with the principles and methods of dance on film feels more relevant than ever. As dance-makers we have been brutally confronted this past year with the very fragile and ephemeral nature of live performance. For many of us, film presents a way forward… I love that filmmaking allows the artist greater control and specificity— the ability to direct the viewer’s gaze, to manipulate time, to fully explore detail and environment, and to grant the audience intimate access inside the performative space." - Emily Terndrup

Bat-Sheva Guez

"What Comes Next: Options for Getting Your Film Seen"

This lecture covers the ins and outs of the various avenues towards getting your film seen once it’s completed. We will help you navigate the world of film festivals, online promotion and release, marketing, publicity, distribution, licensing negotiations and more.

BIO

Bat-Sheva Guez weaves dance, magic, and experimental techniques into visually compelling, character-driven films. Guez has directed over 20 short films and screened in festivals worldwide including the Hamptons International Film Festival, the Rhode Island International Film Festival, the Newport Beach Film Festival, the Brooklyn Film Festival and more.

She was a finalist for the 2020 SCREENCRAFT SCREENWRITING FELLOWSHIP, the recipient of the JT3 ARTIST AWARD for Screenwriting & Directing and has been awarded screenwriting residencies by NEW YORK STAGE AND FILM, the Lighthouse Film Festival and the Nostros Screenwriting Retreat in Tuscany.

Her dance film, IN THIS LIFE, won BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM at the Brooklyn Film Festival and BEST MUSICAL at the Rhode Island Int'l Film Festival, and played to a sold out theater at Lincoln Center's Dance on Camera Festival. It has screened at 14 festivals and is touring college campuses including Santa Monica College where it played to an audience of four hundred. The film is currently available on broadcast and online on ALL ARTS through WLIW and has received press from NY Times, Forbes and LA Review of Books among others.

Her dance/narrative film, BEHIND THE WALL, won 8 awards including among others, BEST DIRECTOR at the Art of Brooklyn Film Festival, BEST SHORT FILM at the Moondance Film Festival and the Panavision Grant for BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY at the Rhode Island International Film Festival. The film went on to screen at 28 festivals and screenings worldwide. Dance Magazine called it: “The Genre-Defying Dance film you didn’t know you needed in your life.”

Guez directs branded content for clients like Lincoln Center, JP Morgan, Conde Nast, Pfizer, and other brands. She is currently in the financing phase of a magical-realism feature film entitled, And How She…

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Mary John Frank

“Creative & Technical Preparation For Filming”

In this workshop we will observe classic choreography on camera and discuss camera angles, editing, and choices made by the films' directors. We will then apply our findings to the students' own unique film projects. Participants will have time to explore and also prepare a short scene or sequence from their films. They will choose if they'd like to focus on performance, camera work or placement, choreography, and/or on set preparation. The goal is that all participants gain a deeper understanding of their intentions for these respective scenes and leave the class with a clear plan of action going into filming.

BIO

Mary John Frank is a New York-based choreographer and filmmaker. She has directed video content for companies including New York City Ballet, Condé Nast, Google Daydream and has worked in production roles at film studios including Paramount Vantage and Warner Bros. Her choreography, films, and music video work has been featured on Vogue.com, Nowness, Afropunk, and Refinery 29, and has played at venues including Lincoln Center and the Hammer Museum.

Her work blends elements of modern dance and musical theater with symmetrical architecture and set design. The New York Times has described her work as “witty” and “charming,” and her work relies on dance, precise blocking, and physical comedy to explore and discuss socially and politically relevant topics. Her latest project, FROM SEA TO RISING SEA, is an interactive 360 musical experience about reversing climate change and ocean-based solutions that can assist us in reaching the goal of net zero carbon emissions by 2050.

She's the founder of The Digital Dance Collective, a company that brings together movers and technical artists to create films and dance-based XR content and performance. MJ is interested in how VR and AR can enhance our storytelling capabilities and how we can maintain integrity and respect for the human body when integrating new tech. She is also exploring how dancers and kinesthetically aware artists can contribute to and participate in the creation of new technologies, interfaces, and stories that drive and shape our culture.

Francesca Harper

“Digital Portraits: Autodramas”

In this workshop Harper will facilitate the construction and the development of short, personal films allowing movement, filmmaking, images, text, music, and discovery in natural and industrial habitat to be accessible and serve as inspiration. Participants will steep into memory by creating an autodrama, in which the artist is asked to describe her, his or their life from birth to the present moment. By utilizing movement, gesture, stillness, storytelling, repetition and physicality in daily life, participants will begin to notice how often we compartmentalize aspects of ourselves rather than bringing our whole human experience into every moment of our artmaking. This workshop helps provide a bridge between our movement and internal emotional life. The process of creating the autodrama often reveals blockages, patterns and limitations built up over time to gradually obstruct optimal movement in our bodies. This work unlocks emotions and fears that have been stored for years in the postures, habits and restrictions of the body. In making such brave choices with the help of the autodrama, the artist becomes a human example and movement becomes a tool not only for self knowledge but a tool to communicate more honestly and fully through art, while ideally providing a path for others who witness the artwork to know more about themselves as well.

BIO

After being named Presidential Scholar in the Arts and performing at the White House, Harper joined and performed soloist roles with The Dance Theater of Harlem and later as a Principal Artist in William Forsythe’s Ballet Frankfurt. Harper has choreographed for The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Richmond Ballet, Ailey II, Tanz Graz, Hubbard Street II, and her own company, The Francesca Harper Project, which was founded in 2005 and tours Internationally.

Harper performed in four Broadway productions including The Color Purple, then toured in leading roles in Sweet Charity, Sophisticated Ladies and Lady Day at Emerson Bar and Grill. She also served as a Ballet Consultant for the Oscar winning film, “Black Swan.” Harper was Movement and Casting Director for The Bessie Award winning, “The Let Go,” commissioned by the Park Avenue Armory and for Zendaya and Tommy Hilfiger’s Apollo Theater production for Fashion Week in 2019.

Fellowships include Urban Bush Women’s Choreographic Center Initiative andThe Ballet Center at NYU. New works include a new creation for Wendy Whelan, Associate Artistic Director of The New York City Ballet and her own autobiographical work, “Unapologetic Body, supported by Urban Bush Women’s CCI. Harper is currently engaged as Executive Producer with Sony Pictures on a series in development while also pursuing an MFA in performance creation at Goddard College.

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