Bebe Miller Research Paper

Bebe Miller was born in Brooklyn, New York City, NY on September 20, 1950 (age 65). She was raised by her mother, an elementary school teacher. She was raised in a public housing project in Red Hook Neighborhood. At the age of five she started to take modern classes. At thirteen she took ballet classes at Carnegie Hall in Manhattan. She later said that she “didn’t fit in” and “I was intimidated” so she quit. In 1971 she graduated from Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana with a degree in art. Four years later she graduated with a master’s degree in dance at Ohio State University after receiving a fellowship with them. Awards include Creative Artists Public Service Fellowship (1984), New York Foundation for the Arts Choreographer's Fellowship (1984+1991); National Endowment for the Arts Choreographer's Fellowship (1985, 1986, 1987, and 1988), New York Dance and Performance Award (a.k.a. “Bessie”) (1986+1987), American Choreographer Award and John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, (both 1988), Dewar's Young Artists Recognition Award (1990), Creative Capital Award in the discipline of Performing Arts (2006), named a Fellow by United States Artists (2010),and Doris Duke Artist award (2012).
Mainly the way a male and female relationship develops. Miller quoted she “want dances to work equally with one another despite gender. Stated in an article written by Joseph Carman, "When Bebe Miller launches into her solo, Rhythm Studies, she may be creating a new genre of dance: black urban flamenco. Stamping on the floor, beating on a set of drums, and then venting her anxieties through words and gestures, she reaches for a primal place that could only be accessed by a woman of vast experience"