Miro Dance Theatre

Projects

  • Ongoing Publicity - 07-08 Season
  • Design - MiroDanceTheatre.org
Miro Dance Theatre creates and performs original work that explores the collaborative intersections of dance, video, and visual art. Miro uses classical technique as a departure point from which to explore new and challenging dance vocabularies, ideologies, performance disciplines, and the way media co-exist within the performance space. The company was founded in 2004 by dancer and choreographer Amanda Miller and video and visual artist Tobin Rothlein, following five years as Co-Artistic directors of Phrenic New Ballet. Miller, with ten years experience as a dancer with the Pennsylvania Ballet and choreographic studies in Europe under Siobhan Davies, is at the helm of Miro’s choreographic exploration. Rothlein, whose work as video artist and visual designer for Rennie Harris Puremovement and others has garnered national and international accolades, oversees the company’s work in combining dance, multi-media and visual arts. As the 2007-08 Girard College artists-in-residence, the company also oversees an outreach program with the school’s students.

Press

"If this one-night-only tribal event by Miro Dance Theatre expounded on anything, it was on the power of percussion and performance to bring people together. The show felt like Philly's answer to Burning Man, albeit urban and confined; a celebration to multiply the pleasures of the already celebratory First Friday." Read the full review of Principles of Uncertainty here.
- Philadelphia Inquirer
"If there was a haven of lightness and softness in this abstract yet not oblique program, it was Amanda Miller's choreography for the Miro dancers: Much of it was everyday movements with a level of synchronization not often found in nature, and a levity that came when dancers dueted with taped street scenes shown on four grainy video monitors. Eclectic in the spirit of composer TV, one Miller moment might suggest tai chi next to another that jitterbugged." Read the full Pitch Black review here.
- Philadelphia Inquirer
Miro founders Tobin Rothlein and Amanda Miller discuss the new monthly Open Studio Series with Phillyist. Read the full story here.
- Phillyist.com
Read Miro's feature story in the South Philly Review here, Shapes, sights & sounds.
- South Philly Review
Review of Pitch Black: "There was choreography by Amanda Miller, with the dancers’ images reflected in the plate-glass windows, and figuratively in the faces of passers-by. And there were accompanying videos, some of streetscapes echoeing the streetscape outside... the words processed and repeated and washed with heaving chords or gentle melodies from the Prism saxophone quartet."
- The New York Times
"Tobin Rothlein, Amanda Miller and collaborator Antony Rizzi (a former Forsythe dancer) use Miro's enormous collective physical chops and video expertise with restraint, making Lie to Me a study in understatement pointing to the profound."
- Philadelphia Inquirer