Celeste Miller
{{Short description|American choreographer, dancer}}
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Celeste Miller is a choreographer, solo performer, educator, and community arts animator, located in the United States.
Career
Miller is the Institute Director of the Curriculum in Motion Institute, co-founder of Jacob's Pillow Curriculum in Motion, and Lead Artist of Jacob's Pillow Medicine in Motion.{{Cite web |title=Celeste Miller |url=https://www.jacobspillow.org/people/celeste-miller/ |access-date=2023-05-09 |website=Jacob's Pillow |language=en}} She has authored a description of the Curriculum in Motion approach, titled 'Dancing with our Textbooks on our Heads', in the book Hybrid Lives of Teaching Artists in Dance and Theatre Arts: A Critical Reader (Cambria Press).{{Cite web |title=Hybrid Lives of Teaching Artists in Dance and Theatre Arts: A Critical Reader By Mary Elizabeth Anderson and Doug Risner |url=https://www.cambriapress.com/pub.cfm?bid=603 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=www.cambriapress.com}} She has also been a facilitator at the Alabama Dance Council.{{Cite web |title=Celeste Miller, Facilitator |url=https://alabamadancecouncil.org/artist/celeste-miller-facilitator/ |access-date=2023-06-17 |website=alabamadancecouncil.org}} She is currently an associate professor in the department of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies at Grinnell College, where she is the artistic director of the Grinnell College Dance Ensemble/ACTivate.{{Cite web |title=millerce {{!}} Grinnell College |url=https://www.grinnell.edu/user/millerce |access-date=2023-05-09 |website=www.grinnell.edu}} Miller earned her MFA from Hollins University/American Dance Festival.
Her choreographic piece titled 'Vision On 66: Go Dad Go' was performed in Tampa and St. Petersburg,{{Cite web |title=A performer gets her kicks from Route 66 |url=https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1992/03/20/a-performer-gets-her-kicks-from-route-66/ |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=Tampa Bay Times |language=en}} as well as L.A.{{Cite web |last=Perlmutter |first=Donna |date=1992-06-01 |title=Dance : Celeste Miller: Route 66 Connects at Highways |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-06-01-ca-330-story.html |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}} Her piece 'At Water’s Edge/Al filo de agua', directed in conjunction with Dora Arreola and featuring dancer Miroslava Wilson, vocalist Siki Carpio, and violinist/composer Chip Epsten,{{Cite web |date=2022-05-13 |title=At Water's Edge / Al Filo del Agua Premiere |url=https://www.art2action.org/post/press-release-at-water-s-edge-al-filo-del-agua-premiere |access-date=2023-06-17 |website=Art2Action |language=en}} was performed at the Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, Florida in June 2022.{{Cite web |last=Greenberg |first=Chloe |title=MFA St. Pete's final 'Water's Edge' bilingual theater and dance performance happens Sunday |url=https://www.cltampa.com/arts/mfa-st-petes-final-waters-edge-bilingual-theater-and-dance-performance-happens-sunday-13674583 |access-date=2023-06-17 |website=Creative Loafing Tampa Bay |language=en}}
Awards
Miller has received a National Endowment for the Arts Choreography Fellowship and the Atlanta Mayor's Fellowship in the Arts.{{Cite web |title=About the Contributors |url=http://dancercitizen.org/issue-7/about-the-contributors/ |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=The Dancer-Citizen}}
References
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Category:21st-century American dancers
Category:American choreographers
Category:American female dancers
Category:American women choreographers
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