| Celeste Miller |
Celeste Miller is a choreographer, solo performer, educator, and community arts animator, located in the United States.
Miller is the Institute Director of the Curriculum in Motion Institute, co-founder of Jacob's Pillow Curriculum in Motion, and Lead Artist of Jacob's Pillow Medicine in Motion.[1] She has authored a description of the Curriculum in Motion approach, titled 'Dancing with our Textbooks on our Heads', in the book Hybrid Lives of Teaching Artists in Dance and Theatre Arts: A Critical Reader (Cambria Press).[2] She has also been a facilitator at the Alabama Dance Council.[3] She is currently an associate professor in the department of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies at Grinnell College, where she is the artistic director of the Grinnell College Dance Ensemble/ACTivate.[4] Miller earned her MFA from Hollins University/American Dance Festival.
Her choreographic piece titled 'Vision On 66: Go Dad Go' was performed in Tampa and St. Petersburg,[5] as well as L.A.[6] Her piece 'At Water’s Edge/Al filo de agua', directed in conjunction with Dora Arreola and featuring dancer Miroslava Wilson, vocalist Siki Carpio, and violinist/composer Chip Epsten,[7] was performed at the Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, Florida in June 2022.[8]
Miller has received a National Endowment for the Arts Choreography Fellowship and the Atlanta Mayor's Fellowship in the Arts.[9]