MODERN DANCE TROUPE AT HOLLINS

                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: THURSDAY, February 6, 1992                   TAG: 9202060103
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MODERN DANCE TROUPE AT HOLLINS
Bebe Miller Company, one of the foremost troupes in modern dance, will perform Sunday at 8:30 p.m. in the Hollins Theatre at Hollins College.
Dancer/choreographer Bebe Miller has been recognized by two Bessie-New York Dance and Performance Awards, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the American Choreographer Award of the National Corporate Fund for Dance and the 1990 Dewar's Young Artists Recognition Award.
Barbara Zuck of the Columbus Dispatch in Ohio, described Miller as "of the tote-and-carry, lug-and-tug school of choreography, an earth mother with a penchant for the funky."
Reviewing a Miller performance for Dance magazine, Joan Acocella wrote that the dancer "uses her body as if she had just gotten it and hadn't yet read the instruction manual."
Among Miller's best-known works are "Rain," a solo piece to the music of Hearn Gadbois and Heitor Villa-Lobos; a 40-minute ensemble number called "Allies" that is danced to a score by British art-rock composer Fred Frith; and "The Hendrix Project," with music by the late rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix.
"Allies" and "The Hendrix Project" are on the program for Sunday's performance at Hollins, along with dances called "The Hidden Boy" and "The Habit of Attraction."
Miller is based in her native New York. She graduated from Earlham College in Indiana and studied dance as a graduate student at Ohio State University. She has been working as a choreographer since 1978, and she founded her own dance company in 1984.
Tickets are $5 for the general public and $3 for students and senior citizens.

by Bhavesh Jinadra by CNB