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Bebe Miller Company
Landing/Place, Bebe Miller's first Company work since her 2001 Bessie award-winning Verge, employs digitalized motion-capture, live music, video projection and exquisite dancing to explore sensory, spatial and cultural dislocation, the yearning toward order in the apprehension of difference. Miller's hallmark choreography - rich, luscious, sensuous - is present here in the gorgeous dancing of her first-rate cast. The dance is seen through a layering of projected images that evoke present and past time in a work that contemplates place within a global human landscape.
Landing/Place, choreographed and directed by Bebe Miller, is performed by Kathleen Fisher, Angie Hauser, Kathleen Hermesdorf, Darrell Jones and David Thomson with live music by Albert Mathias. Lighting design is by Michael Mazzola, dramaturgy by Talvin Wilks, digital animation by Vita Berezina-Blackburn with Brian Windsor, real time video interface design by Marlon Barrios Solano, and video/media by Maya Ciarrocchi, Robbie Shaw, and James Wood.
Landing/Place was developed with support from the Advanced Computing Center for Art and Design (ACCAD) at Ohio State University. The work's development was funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts; the Doris Duke Fund for Dance of the National Dance Project, a program administered by the New England Foundation for the Arts with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and Altria Group, Inc.; the Battelle Endowment for Technology and Human Affairs (BETHA) Program and the Department of Dance at The Ohio State University. The Ohio Arts Council helped fund Landing/Place with state tax dollars to encourage economic growth, educational excellence and cultural enrichment for all Ohioans. Landing/Place is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State agency.
The creation of Landing/Place was made possible, in part, with funds from the Danspace Project's 2003-2004 Commissioning Initiative with support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The work was developed through multiple residencies at the Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University with support of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.