ART NOW - Suzanne Miller Speaks October 16th, 2015 at Noon in the Recital Hall

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Using the body as a starting place, Suzanne Miller’s work concentrates of the immediacy of action and the symbolic residue of representation. Her extended interest in music, visual art, performance and technology has influenced her choreography and collaborations with artists.

Since 1985 Miller’s dance productions and performance installations have toured throughout Canada, the United States, the Czech Republic, Germany, the Netherlands, Mexico, Venezuela and the Middle East.  She has participated at international festivals and residencies as a dance artist and was nominated for a Dora Mavor Moore Award in 2000 for “outstanding choreography”.  Her multi-ranged practice as a soloist, choreographer, teacher and company director has led to many professional exchanges, and has included commissions from dance companies, presenters and festivals worldwide.

Since 1998, her company-Suzanne Miller & Allan Paivio Productions has worked toward a hybrid, poly-cultural repertoire of new dance and music unique to Canada. The distinctive character of the company derives from an ongoing series of cultural and artistic exchanges that feed their creative process rooted in non-hierarchical approaches to dance performance and music production. Throughout this collaboration they have explored ritualistic, abstract and conceptual structures and draw from traditional sources such as classical ballet, folk dance and music. Miller and Paivio commemorate forebears’ and invoke ancestral and artistic lineage attempting to create allegories that activate and revive a social consciousness.

Photo credit: Francois Bergeron, Dancers: Suzanne Miller, Karsten Kroll, Mount Royal Cemetery (2010)

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Contact:

Jarrett Duncan | jarrett.duncan@uleth.ca