The Creator

Andrea Miller is both the artistic director and choreographer of the quickly rising company, Gallim Dance, based out of New York City.  Miller was born in Salt Lake City, Utah and began her dance training there.  She later moved to Connecticut and furthered her training in Humphrey-Weidman technique, instructed by an original Humphrey-Weidman dancer, Ernestine Stodelle.  Miller attended Julliard for college and received a BFA in dance.  While studying at Julliard, she was able to work in close contact with Israel based choreographer, Ohad Naharin (Batsheva Ensemble) on several occasions.  After earning her degree, Miller auditioned for the Batsheva Ensemble and moved to Israel. When asked what led her to the Batsheva Ensemble, Miller responded "Ohad came to set a piece at Juilliard—I didn’t know who he was—and I really responded to the work. I felt like it related to everything I wanted out of dance intellectually and physically."  Miller returned to New York with the desire to choreograph and ended up beginning Gallim Dance in 2006.  Since the development of her company, she has created several full length works including "Snow," "I Can See Myself in Your Pupil," "Blush" and her newest work that premiered in 2010, "Wonderland."